DS4.4:
DS 4.4 Maintenance of the IT Continuity Plan
Control Objective:
Encourage IT management to define and execute procedures to ensure that the IT continuity plan is kept up to date and continually reflects actual business requirements. It is essential that changes in procedures and responsibilities be communicated clearly and in a timely manner.
Applicability:
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- HIPAA
- GLBA
- PCI
- FISMA
- NIST SP 800-66
- Ditscap
- Control Exception
- User Defined
Risk Association Control Activities:
- 1. Risk: Security and business continuity risks are introduced by technical designs incompatible with enterprise standards.
- a. SOX.1.15: Controls provide reasonable assurance that business requirements are gathered and approved during the development and maintenance of systems with potential impact to financial reporting.
- 1. Risk: Security and business continuity risks are introduced by technical designs incompatible with enterprise standards.
- 2. Risk: IT security measures are not aligned with business requirements.
- a. SOX.2.7.2: Controls provide reasonable assurance that IT security measures are aligned with business requirements.
- 2. Risk: IT security measures are not aligned with business requirements.
- 3. Risk: Employees, including individuals with special security responsibilities (such as information security staff, systems administration staff, information asset owners, etc.) are not informed of or trained in their security responsibilities.
- a. SOX.2.7.4: Controls provide reasonable assurance that employees are aware of their security responsibility and are able to respond appropriately to security incidents.
- 3. Risk: Employees, including individuals with special security responsibilities (such as information security staff, systems administration staff, information asset owners, etc.) are not informed of or trained in their security responsibilities.
- 4. PCI-6.4.1 Documentation of impact.
- 5. PCI-6.4.2 Management sign-off by appropriate parties.
- 6. PCI-6.4.3 Testing that verifies operational functionality.
- 7. PCI-6.4.4 Back-out procedures.
Implementation Guide:
Process Narrative
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Process Illustration
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Control Commentary
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Control Exception Commentary
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Evidence Archive Location
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Control Status and Auditors Commentary
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Remediation Plan
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Supplemental Information:
ITIL Service Delivery
ITIL IT Service Continuity Management
ITIL 7.3 The business continuity life cycle
ISO 11.1 Aspects of business continuity management
ISO 4.1 Information security infrastructure
