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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 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

API 11641 control

The plan must require continuous improvement processes in which lessons learned are reviewed for changes they may call for in the recovery strategy.

api-1164::RC.IM-2 · RC.IM-2 Recovery strategy updated from lessons learned →

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 →

Disaster scenarios must not endanger patients, the quality of the product or the integrity of data. Business continuity guides the organization to react, recover, restart and return to an agreed operating level while disruption lasts and once it ends, while di...

gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::O10 · Appendix O10 Business Continuity Management →
HKMA SPM1 control

Sets the supervisory approach to business continuity planning and the sound practices expected: board and senior management oversight (policy, process and responsibility, monitoring and reporting), business impact analysis and recovery strategy, the developmen...

hkma-spm::TM-G-2 · TM-G-2 Business Continuity Planning →
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 →

IT disaster types that threaten continuity of core services (natural disaster, telecom or power failure, hacking) are identified and their damage and business impact analysed to identify core IT services and systems;

south-korea-isms-p::2.12.1 · Disaster preparedness →

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 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Recovery Strategy?
Recovery Strategy appears in the requirement text of API 1164, Azure Security Benchmark, GAMP 5 - Good Automated Manufacturing Practice, HKMA SPM, HKMA TM-G-1. Across these standards we have identified 6 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 1,016 frameworks.

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