Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy
Defines Your Organization's approach to continuing critical business operations and recovering information systems following a disruption — with RTO/RPO targets, DR testing, and plan review cadence.
Maps to FedRAMP Moderate CP-2 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.5.29 · SOC 2 Type II CC9.1
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Purpose
Disruptions — whether from cyber incident, cloud provider outage, natural disaster, supplier failure, or workforce unavailability — are inevitable. This policy sets Your Organization's expectations for continuing critical business operations and recovering information systems during and after a disruption, and assigns accountability for the plans, tests, and exercises that keep us ready.
Scope
This policy applies to every Your Organization business process and information system. It applies to all workforce members involved in the continuity program — plan owners, system owners, and the leadership who make disruption-time decisions.
10 more sections in the full template
Definitions · Recovery objectives · Responsibilities · Plans and playbooks · Backups · Testing and exercises · Third-party continuity · Scope exceptions · Related plans · Review cadence. Download the full document above, or open it in CMDash to fill in your organization name and effective date automatically.
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