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Recovery Strategy

What is Recovery Strategy?

The selected approach for recovering critical business functions and IT systems after a disruption, based on recovery time and cost analysis.

Business Continuity

What the standards actually require on recovery strategy

Requirements naming recovery strategy across 5 standards, quoted from the control text.

Define and implement a backup and recovery strategy with documented guidance, policy and standards including recovery time and recovery point objectives.

ASBv3-GS-8 · Define and implement backup and recovery strategy
ISO 223161 control

Recovery strategy for critical activities. Control from ISO 22316 framework, domain: ISO 22316: Business Continuity Strategy.

ISO22316-12 · Recovery strategy for critical activities
ISO 223171 control

Recovery strategy for critical activities. Control from ISO 22317 framework, domain: ISO 22317: Business Continuity Strategy.

ISO22317-12 · Recovery strategy for critical activities
ISO 223181 control

Recovery strategy for critical activities. Control from ISO 22318 framework, domain: ISO 22318: Business Continuity Strategy.

ISO22318-12 · Recovery strategy for critical activities
HKMA TM-G-11 control

HKMA TM-G-1 adjacent modules covered in this framework's scope. TM-G-2 BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING: (a) Business Continuity Governance (TM-G-2.2.1) - Board oversight + BCP committee + crisis management + RACI + ownership;

HKMA-TMG1-Adjacent-TMG2-TME1-OR2-BCP-eBanking-Resilience · TM-G-2 BCP + TM-E-1 e-Banking + OR-2 Operational Resilience Adjacent Modules

Questions people ask about recovery strategy

What is Recovery Strategy?
The selected approach for recovering critical business functions and IT systems after a disruption, based on recovery time and cost analysis.
Why is Recovery Strategy important for compliance?
Recovery Strategy is a key concept in Business Continuity. Understanding recovery strategy 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 Strategy?
Recovery Strategy appears in the requirement text of Azure Security Benchmark, ISO 22316, ISO 22317, ISO 22318, HKMA TM-G-1. Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Recovery Strategy?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how recovery strategy 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 Recovery Strategy applies across compliance frameworks

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

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