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Disaster Recovery as a Service

What is Disaster Recovery as a Service?

A cloud-based service that provides disaster recovery capabilities including automated failover, replication, and recovery of IT systems.

Business Continuity

Frameworks that govern disaster recovery as a service

CSA CCM v4View framework →ISO 27001:2022View framework →NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0View framework →

What the standards actually require on disaster recovery as a service

Requirements naming disaster recovery as a service across this standard, quoted from the control text.

ITU-T X.805 - Security Architecture for End-to-End Communications1 control

Security Dimension 7 Availability per X.805 Clause 6.7: Availability ensures that there is no denial of authorized access to network elements + stored information + information flows + services and applications due to events impacting the network.

X805-Dim7-Availability-Network-Resources-Information-Authorized-Access-No-Service-Denial · ITU-T X.805 Security Dimension 7 - Availability + Network Resources + Information Accessible to Authorized Users + Denial-of-Service Prevention + Resilience + Redundancy + Disaster Recovery + Business Continuity + DDoS Mitigation →

Questions people ask about disaster recovery as a service

What is Disaster Recovery as a Service?
A cloud-based service that provides disaster recovery capabilities including automated failover, replication, and recovery of IT systems.
Why is Disaster Recovery as a Service important for compliance?
Disaster Recovery as a Service is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding disaster recovery as a service helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Disaster Recovery as a Service?
Disaster Recovery as a Service appears in the requirement text of ITU-T X.805 - Security Architecture for End-to-End Communications. Across these standards we have identified 1 control that names it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Disaster Recovery as a Service?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how disaster recovery as a service applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Disaster Recovery as a Service applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.