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How resilient is your business continuity management?

20 questions check mandate, BIA, strategies, plans and exercises. The answers stay exclusively in this browser.

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  1. 01

    Mandate & scope

    Has leadership approved objectives, a mandate and resources for the BCMS?

    Expected evidence: BCM policy or leadership resolution

  2. 02

    Mandate & scope

    Are the scope, services, sites and key interfaces defined?

    Expected evidence: Approved scope description

  3. 03

    Mandate & scope

    Are BCM roles, deputies and decision rights documented?

    Expected evidence: Role and deputy matrix

  4. 04

    Mandate & scope

    Are interfaces with ISMS, ITSCM, crisis management and risk management regulated?

    Expected evidence: Process and interface description

  5. 05

    BIA

    Is a consistent BIA methodology with time steps and damage categories in use?

    Expected evidence: BIA methodology

  6. 06

    BIA

    Are time-critical services prioritised based on documented damage curves?

    Expected evidence: Approved BIA results

  7. 07

    BIA

    Are the RTO, minimum level and critical resources determined for each service?

    Expected evidence: BIA documentation sheet

  8. 08

    BIA

    Are dependencies between services, resources and suppliers recorded?

    Expected evidence: Dependency overview

  9. 09

    Strategies

    Are the relevant outage scenarios defined organisation-wide?

    Expected evidence: Scenario catalogue

  10. 10

    Strategies

    Are solution options assessed against BIA targets, effort and residual risk?

    Expected evidence: Strategy decision

  11. 11

    Strategies

    Are approved BC solutions funded and implemented with owners?

    Expected evidence: BCM action plan

  12. 12

    Strategies

    Are time-critical suppliers managed with verifiable BCM requirements?

    Expected evidence: Requirements catalogue and evidence

  13. 13

    Response

    Are alerting and escalation thresholds described unambiguously?

    Expected evidence: Alerting matrix

  14. 14

    Response

    Is the dedicated response organisation prepared with roles and working methods?

    Expected evidence: Emergency manual or crisis team charter

  15. 15

    Response

    Do current business continuity and recovery plans exist for prioritised services?

    Expected evidence: Approved BC plans

  16. 16

    Response

    Are plans and contact details available even if central IT fails?

    Expected evidence: Offline or fallback storage

  17. 17

    Exercise & improve

    Does a multi-year exercise plan cover roles, plans and critical dependencies?

    Expected evidence: Exercise programme

  18. 18

    Exercise & improve

    Are exercises evaluated against criteria defined in advance?

    Expected evidence: Exercise report

  19. 19

    Exercise & improve

    Are findings tracked through to the effectiveness check?

    Expected evidence: Action register

  20. 20

    Exercise & improve

    Does leadership regularly assess the performance, changes and improvement needs of the BCMS?

    Expected evidence: Management review