Business Continuity Management:

Business Continuity Management

ISO 17799 defines Business Continuity Management objectives to counteract interruptions to business and protect critical business processes from the effects of major failures or disasters. This section provides templates for Information Security standards that are required to comply with ISO Business Continuity Management objectives and support the objectives established in the Asset Protection Policy, and Threat Assessment and Monitoring Policy.

1. Sample ISO Availability Protection Standard

The Availability Protection Standard is required to comply with ISO Business Continuity Management objectives and builds on the objectives established in the Asset Protection Policy by providing specific requirements for protecting the availability of information assets.

2. Sample ISO Threat Monitoring Standard

The Threat Monitoring Standard is required to comply with ISO Business Continuity Management objectives and builds on the objectives established in the Threat Assessment and Monitoring Policy by providing specific requirements for periodically identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing threats to sensitive information such as health information pertaining to individuals. The Threat Monitoring Standard provides specific requirements for performing real-time intrusion detection monitoring and periodic intrusion detection analysis to detect threat and intrusion activity.

3. Sample ISO Incident Response Standard

The Incident Response Standard is required to comply with ISO Business Continuity Management and builds on the objectives established in the Threat Assessment and Monitoring Policy by providing specific requirements for developing and exercising formal plans, and associated metrics, for responding to security incidents and intrusions.