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BCR-04: Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning
BCR-04: Are operational resilience strategies and capability results incorporated to establish, document, approve, communicate, apply, evaluate, and maintain a business continuity plan?

All relevant business continuity plans should be developed consistently to address priorities for operational resilience, testing, maintenance, and information security requirements.


Business continuity plans should be accessible and available to those with the need-to-know and include the following elements:
a. Defined purpose and scope, aligned with relevant dependencies.
b. Assigned roles and responsibilities (i.e., review, update, and approval).
c. Defined lines of communication, roles, and responsibilities.
d. Detailed recovery procedures, manual workaround, and reference information.
e. Method for plan invocation.


The plans should be tested and reviewed at planned intervals (e.g., annually or upon significant organizational or environmental changes).


Not applicable - A “N/A” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is out of scope of the assessment. The “SSRM control ownership” column is to be left blank (e.g., greyed out), and optionally the CSP may explain why it is the case (“CSP Implementation Description”).
No - A “No” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is not implemented, while in scope of the assessment. The CSP has to assign the implementation responsibility of the control to the relevant party under column “SSRM control ownership”, and optionally elaborate on the “why” (has not been implemented), and “what” has to be done for its implementation by that party.
Yes - A “Yes” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is implemented. The CSP indicates the responsible and accountable parties (SSRM control ownership), and optionally elaborates on the implementation “how-to” per relevant party CSP and/or CSC.
CSP-owned - The CSP is entirely responsible and accountable for the CCM control implementation.
CSC-owned - The Cloud Service Customer (CSC) is entirely responsible and accountable for the CCM control implementation.
Third-party - The third-party CSP in the supply chain (e.g., an IaaS provider) is responsible for CCM control implementation, while the CSP is fully accountable.
Shared CSP and CSC - Both the CSP and CSC share CCM control implementation responsibility and accountability.
Shared CSP and third party - Any CCM control implementation responsibility is shared between CSP and the third party, but the CSP remains fully accountable.
Description

Establish, document, approve, communicate, apply, evaluate and maintain a business continuity plan based on the results of the operational resilience strategies and capabilities.