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Recovery Capability

What is Recovery Capability?

An organization's ability to restore operations within defined timeframes using available resources, plans, and procedures.

Business Continuity

Terms that appear alongside recovery capability

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as recovery capability. The number is how many controls name both.

Frameworks that govern recovery capability

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0View framework →ISO 27001:2022View framework →

What the standards actually require on recovery capability

Requirements naming recovery capability across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

NIST Special Publication 800-34 Revision 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems2 controls

Operate recovery capability aligned with FIPS 199 impact level + NIST RMF integration per NIST SP 800-34 Rev 1 Appendix F (Sample Plans per Impact Level) + Chapter 4 (Information System Contingency Plan Development).

NISTSP34-8 · Recovery Capability by Impact Level, RTO/RPO, and Integration with NIST RMF →
BIMCO Cyber Security1 control

Data recovery capability. The company should maintain backups and a data recovery capability for critical shipboard data and system configurations.

BIMCO-10.4 · Data recovery capability →
Japan AI Guidelines1 control

Security (Sekyuritii セキュリティ) is the fifth of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + addresses cybersecurity throughout AI lifecycle including adversarial attacks specific to ML + traditional cyber threats to AI infrastructure.

JP-AIG-Security-Adversarial-Attack-Protection-Prompt-Injection-Data-Poisoning-Model-Extraction-AISI-Red-Team · Japan AI Guidelines Security + Adversarial Attack Protection + Prompt Injection + Data Poisoning + Model Extraction + Membership Inference + AISI Red-Team + MLSecOps + Supply Chain Security + Foundation Model Vulnerabilities →

Questions people ask about recovery capability

What is Recovery Capability?
An organization's ability to restore operations within defined timeframes using available resources, plans, and procedures.
Why is Recovery Capability important for compliance?
Recovery Capability is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding recovery capability 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 Recovery Capability?
Recovery Capability appears in the requirement text of NIST Special Publication 800-34 Revision 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems, BIMCO Cyber Security, Japan AI Guidelines. Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Recovery Capability?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how recovery capability 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.

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