Iso 27031 Disaster: Recovery

"Tell Legal the RTO is 240 minutes," Julian said calmly. "We are 5 minutes in. We have 235 left. Do not make promises we cannot keep."

: Establishing workflows to monitor, operate, and recover ICT systems. iso 27031 disaster recovery

| Area | Check | |------|-------| | All critical ICT assets have documented RTO/RPO. | ☐ | | ICT recovery strategies are approved by business process owners. | ☐ | | Backup/restore procedures tested within last 3 months. | ☐ | | DR plan includes manual workarounds for network/power loss. | ☐ | | ICT incident response team knows DR invocation criteria. | ☐ | | Third-party ICT suppliers have validated DR plans. | ☐ | | DR tests include a post-mortem with corrective actions tracked. | ☐ | | ICT continuity plan is stored offsite and accessible offline. | ☐ | | Staff have been trained on their DR roles in last 12 months. | ☐ | "Tell Legal the RTO is 240 minutes," Julian said calmly

This was the power of the standard. It removed the panic-driven guessing. It set the stopwatch based on what the infrastructure could actually handle, validated by the gap analysis Julian had performed. Do not make promises we cannot keep

This was the moment the board had questioned him about three years ago. It was the moment they asked why he had spent six months rewriting their Business Continuity plans to align with a standard they had barely heard of: .