Resilience and incidents
What happens when something goes wrong: the incident plan, the breach procedure, the continuity and recovery plans, the crisis structure and the exercises that prove they work.
Policy types in this family
10- Business continuity plan plan
What each team does when a disruption happens: who is called, what is recovered first, where, with what, and how the return is managed. Required by ISO 27001, ISO 22301, DORA, NIS2; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Business continuity policy policy
The organisation's commitment to continuity: the scope, the objectives, the roles and the review, from which the plans derive. Required by ISO 27001, ISO 22301, DORA; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Business impact analysis record
Which activities matter most, how quickly each must be recovered, what it depends on and what its loss costs over time. Required by ISO 22301, DORA; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Crisis management plan plan
The structure that takes command when an event exceeds the incident plan: who leads, who speaks, how warnings and communications are issued. Required by ISO 22301, DORA, NIS2; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Disaster recovery plan plan
How the technology behind the critical activities is recovered: the order, the targets, the sites, the people and the tests. Required by ISO 27001, ISO 22301, DORA, NIS2; owner the head of IT operations. - Evidence collection and forensics procedure procedure
How evidence of an incident is identified, collected, preserved and handed over so that it can be relied on later. Required by ISO 27001; owner the information security lead (CISO or ISMS manager). - Exercise and test programme record
Which plans are exercised, how, how often, who takes part, and how the results change the plans. Required by ISO 22301, DORA; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Incident response plan plan
How security events are reported, assessed, classified, responded to, escalated, recorded and learned from, and who does each step. Required by ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, DORA, NIS2; owner the information security lead (CISO or ISMS manager). - Pandemic response plan plan
How the organisation keeps operating when a large part of its people cannot come to work at once. Required by ISO 22301; owner the business continuity manager or COO. - Security event reporting procedure procedure
How anyone who sees a security event reports it, to whom, through which channel, and what happens next. Required by ISO 27001, NIS2; owner the information security lead (CISO or ISMS manager).
What reaches this family
| ISO 27001 | Expects: business continuity plan, disaster recovery plan, incident response plan. Requires, by clause: ISO 27001 5.29, ISO 27001 5.30, ISO 27001 8.14, ISO 27001 5.28, ISO 27001 5.24, ISO 27001 5.26, ISO 27001 5.27, ISO 27001 6.8, ISO 27001 5.25. |
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| ISO 27701 | Expects: no document of this family on its gap list. Requires, by clause: ISO 27701 A.3.11. |
| ISO 42001 | Expects: incident response plan. Requires, by clause: ISO 42001 A.8.4. |
| ISO 22301 | Expects: business continuity plan, business continuity policy, business impact analysis, exercise and test programme. Requires, by clause: ISO 22301 8.4.4, ISO 22301 8.4.1, ISO 22301 5.2.1, ISO 22301 8.2.2, ISO 22301 8.4.2, ISO 22301 8.4.3, ISO 22301 8.4.5, ISO 22301 8.5, ISO 22301 8.6. |
| DORA | Expects: business continuity plan, disaster recovery plan, incident response plan. Requires, by clause: DORA Art. 11, DORA Art. 14, DORA Art. 12, DORA Art. 24, DORA Art. 17. |
| NIS2 | Expects: business continuity plan, incident response plan. Requires, by clause: NIS2 Art. 21(2)(c), NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b). |
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