Standard Checklist Criteria For Business Recovery
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Name: ______________________________________________________
Company: ______________________________________________________
Room: ______________________________________________________
Street: ______________________________________________________
City, State, Zip: ______________________________________________________
Phone Number: ______________________________________________________
Business Recovery
Plan for: ______________________________________________________
Business Recover Plan (BRP.–LEVEL 1 (Executive Awareness/Authority. Y N N/A
1. Has a BRP been:
a. Developed?
b. Updated within the last 6 months?
Business Recover Plan (BRP.–LEVEL 2 (Plan Development and Documentation. Y N N/A
Has a classification (critical, important, marginal) been assigned to the Business
Process/Function/ Component that this Facility/Function supports?
1.
2. Has a BRP been:
a. Documented?
b. Maintained?
3. Does the BRP include the following sections:
a. Identification?
b. Incident Management?
i. Responsible company officer?
ii. Personnel responsible for updates?
c. Response?
d. Recovery?
e. Restoration?
f. Plan Exercise?
g. Plan Maintenance?
h. Business Recovery Teams and Contact Information?
Does the BRP identify hardware and software critical to recover the Business and/or
Functions?
4.
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Does the BRP identify necessary support equipment (forms, spare parts, office
equipment, etc.) to recover the Business and/or Functions?
5.
6. 6. Does the BRP require an alternate site for recovery?
a. Does the BRP provide for mail service to be forwarded to the alternate facility?
b. Does the BRP provide for other vital support functions?
7. Are all critical or important data required to support the business being backed up?
a. a. Are they being stored in a protected location (offsite)?
Do you conduct a walk-through exercise of your Plan at least annually? (This should
include a full walk-through as well as “elements” of your plan (i.e. accounts payable,
receivable, shipping and receiving, etc).
8.
9. Does the walk-through element exercises have a prepared plan which includes:
a. Description
b. Scope
c. Objective
10. Is a current copy of the BRP maintained off-site?
11. Do all users of the BRP have ready access to a current copy at all times?
12. Is there an audit trail of the changes made to the BRP?
Do all employees responsible for the execution of the BDRP received ongoing training
in Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management?
13.
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Standard Checklist Criteria For Business Recovery
Business Recover Plan (BRP)–LEVEL 3 (Management & Recovery Team Assessment
and Evaluation For Effectiveness) Y N N/A
1. Has the business officer and management team approved the BRP?
2. Does the business owner maintain:
a. The master copy of the BRP?
b. An audit trail of the changes made to a BRP?
Do all aspects of physical and logical security at the alternate site conform with your
current security procedures?
3.
Are the physical and logical security at the alternate site at least as stringent as the
security at the disaster location?
4.
Have all employees and their alternates responsible for executing a manual workaround for a mechanized process been identified in the BRP and properly trained?
5.
Has an independent observer documented the simulation exercise(s) noting all results,
discrepancies, exposures, action items, and individual responsible, etc.?
6.
Was a debriefing held within a reasonable period of time (typically two weeks) after
the simulation exercise(s) to ensure all activities have been accurately recorded?
7.
Did the exercise coordinator publish a simulation exercise(s) report within a reasonable
period of time (typically three weeks) after the completion of the simulation exercise
(s)?
8.
9. Did the exercise report include:
what worked properly as well as any deficiencies and recommendations for
improvement?
a.
b. responsiblity and due date for the development of the Corrective Action Plan?
Was a Corrective Action Plan developed by the Exercise Team to address any
deficiencies identified by the exercise?
10.
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Is there a retention plan for the Exercise Plans and Corrective Action Plans (minimum
retention 3 years)?
11.
12. Has a walk-through element exercise been performed at least quarterly?
Did each walk-through element exercise have a prepared plan which includes:
a) Description
b) Scope
c) Objective
13.
When there is a change in hardware, software, or a process that might impact the
Business Recovery Plan, is the BRP reviewed and updated within 30 days of the
changes:
Sign-Off By Officer:
by whom? Name:____________________________
When? Date:_____________________________
14.
15. Based on the Joint Assessment has the Team determined that the BRP is effective?
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Standard Checklist Criteria For Business Recovery
Business Recover Plan (BRP)–LEVEL 4 (Certification)
(Management & Recovery Team Assessment Of Readiness and Plan Maintenance) Y N N/A
1. Has the component BRP been approved by the owner(s) of the Business Function(s)?
2. Has the entire BRP simulation exercise been performed at least annually?
3. Has the Corrective Action Plan been completed and closed?
4. Did the BRP simulation exercise have a prepared plan which includes:
a. Description
b. Scope
c. Objective
Did the component BRP simulation exercise meet the acceptable Recovery Time
Objective set by management?
5.
Based on the Joint Assessment has the Team determined that the BRP and Exercises
have met all requirements to provide reasonable assurance that the plan will work in
the event of a disaster?
6.
7. Does the BRP specify the maximum acceptable Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
Does the BRP specify the level of service (which the business owner has agreed to be
acceptable) to be provided while in recovery mode?
8.
9. Have all changes relating to RTO in the BRP been approved by the process owner?
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