Recovery and Business Continuity
Description
The entity identifies, develops, and implements activities to recover from identified security incidents.
⚠️ Risk Impact
Without recovery procedures, incidents cause extended downtime and data loss.
🔧 Remediation
Implement automated backups, disaster recovery plans, and test recovery regularly.
💀 Real-World Attack Scenario
Ransomware encrypted all production databases and application servers. The company had backups but had never tested the restore procedure. The restoration took 11 days instead of the expected 4 hours due to dependency ordering issues, missing configuration data, and expired backup credentials.
💰 Cost of Non-Compliance
Average ransomware downtime: 23 days. Untested backups fail to restore 45% of the time. Average cost of extended downtime: $9K/minute for enterprise services.
📋 Audit Questions
- 1.Show your disaster recovery plan.
- 2.When was the last DR test performed?
- 3.What is your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?
- 4.Were any issues found during the last DR test?
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
⚡ Common Pitfalls
- ⛔Having backups but never testing restore procedures
- ⛔DR plans that exist only as documents without technical implementation
- ⛔Not testing full-stack recovery (only individual component restores)
📈 Business Value
Tested business continuity reduces ransomware impact from months to hours. It's the ultimate insurance policy — the difference between a $9M incident and a $165K incident.
⏱️ Effort Estimate
8-16 hours quarterly for DR testing
EchelonGraph monitors backup configuration and alerts on backup failures
🔗 Cross-Framework References
Automate SOC 2 CC7.5 compliance
EchelonGraph continuously monitors this control across all your cloud accounts.
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