Business Continuity Plan Audit

Use this Business Continuity Plan Audit checklist to review disaster recovery plans, assess preparedness and ensure resilience in case of emergencies.

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Business Continuity Plan Audit

Use this Business Continuity Plan Audit checklist to review disaster recovery plans, assess preparedness and ensure resilience in case of emergencies.

1. Do you have a BCP/DRP?

2. Were you affected and did your plans help?

3. Do you have your plans and key documentation printed, stored safely, and accessible away from work? Does it include names, addresses, and phone numbers for crisis management staff, employees, clients, and vendors?

4. Does it include the location of offsite data backup storage media?

5. Does it include the locations of alternative worksites?

6. Does it include copies of sales contracts, agreements, or other key business documents?

7. Does it include insurance contracts?

8. Does it include other critical materials necessary for business survival?

9. Does the insurance policy include business interruption coverage?

10. Do you know the potential financial and non-financial impact of a business interruption involving major human, physical, and technology loss?

11. Do you know what resources you need as a minimum to recover your critical business functions?

12. Do you know what your maximum tolerable outage and critical activities are in the event of a disaster?

13. Have you defined your Business Continuity Teams including the crisis management function and critical business functions?

14. Have you clearly defined the roles and responsibilities of the Business Continuity Team members?

15. Have you identified alternates for all your personnel, especially your recovery team members who hold responsibilities during a disaster?

16. Does the plan include backup facilities such as the hot backup site?

17. Does the plan include backup facilities such as the cold site?

18. Does the plan include backup facilities such as a reciprocal agreement?

19. Have you recently completed an impact/risk analysis?

20. Is all application software backed up and stored off-site?

21. Does your organization have the project management skills or staff to identify, plan, and execute the next steps in rebuilding as well as continuing to operate as a business?

22. Are there alternatives for entering input normally keyed online?

23. Have you made provisions to have keying done on the outside in emergencies?

24. Does your organization have the project management skills or staff to identify, plan, and execute the next steps in rebuilding as well as continuing to operate as a business?

25. Is there a layout of your communications network?

26. Is a copy of it stored off-site?

27. Are you happy with your critical suppliers’ and outsourced providers’ business continuity plans, such that they will not have a significant impact on your business?