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Continuous Improvement

The organization shall establish a continuous improvement process for Business Impact Analysis, driving ongoing enhancement of BIA accuracy and effectiveness. The process shall include mechanisms for identifying improvement opportunities, implementing changes, and measuring results, drawing inputs from BIA reviews, business changes, and best practice benchmarking.

Requirement ID
BCM-003-R010
Parent Control
BCM-003
Domain Code
BCM

Requirement Details & Guidance

BCM-003-R010 · BCM-003
Why This Requirement Exists

This requirement exists to improve recovery infrastructure and capabilities using reviews, testing, monitoring, and benchmarking and to ensure BCDR capabilities remain aligned with business needs, recovery objectives, and organizational risk.

Implementation Guidance

Establish and document the process for improve recovery infrastructure and capabilities using reviews, testing, monitoring, and benchmarking. Define accountable owners, required inputs and outputs, approval or validation points, criteria and thresholds, review frequency, exception handling, monitoring, reporting, and evidence requirements. Integrate the activity with risk management, incident response, technology operations, asset management, third-party management, and relevant business processes.

Practical Application & Audit Readiness

BCM-003-R010 · Field Guidance

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        Best Practices & Ownership

        BCM-003 · Recommended Approach

        Recommended Practices

          Typical Owner

          Cross-Mapped Regulatory Frameworks

          Harmonized Control Mappings
          FRAMEWORK CODE FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS FAMILY / CATEGORY VERSION ACTION
          ISO27001 ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 specifies auditable requirements for... Clause: 10.1 – Continual improvement
          ISO
          Standard
          		 v2022 View →
          RBI-CSF RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 19) Incident Response & Management – 19.4 BCP/DR supporting cyber resilience, rapid recovery and secure resumption aligned to RTOs
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          SEBI-CSCRF SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 1.1 GV.OC: Organizational Context; 2.1 ID.AM: Asset Management; 6.1 RC.RP: Incident Recovery Plan Execution
          India
          Regulation
          		 vLatest View →
          DORA Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 11(5) – Business impact analysis and critical functions/dependencies/interdependencies Article 8(2) – Continuous identification of ICT risk sources, cyber threats and ICT vulnerabilities
          EU
          Regulation
          		 vCurrent View →
          NIS2 NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(c) – Business continuity, including backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management
          EU
          Directive
          		 vCurrent View →
          PCI-DSS PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 12.10.1 – An incident response plan exists and is
          PCI
          Standard
          		 v4 View →
          ISO22301 ISO/IEC 22301 ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Co... Clause: 8.1 – Operational planning and control; 8.4.4 – Business continuity plans
          ISO
          Standard
          		 v2019 View →
          NIST-CSF NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: PR.IR – Technology Infrastructure Resilience | PR.IR-03 – Mechanisms are implemented to achieve resilience requirements in normal and adverse situations RC.RP – Incident Recovery Plan Execution | RC.RP-01 – The recovery portion of the incident response plan is executed once initiated from the incident response process RC.RP – Incident Recovery Plan Execution | RC.RP-02 – Recovery actions are selected, scoped, prioritized, and performed
          NIST
          Framework
          		 v2 View →
          NIST80053 NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.6 – CONTINGENCY PLANNING, 3.4 – ASSESSMENT, AUTHORIZATION, AND MONITORING; CP-4 – CONTINGENCY PLAN TESTING, CA-7 – CONTINUOUS MONITORING
          NIST
          Control Catalog
          		 vRev. 5 View →
          CIS-V8 CIS Controls CIS Controls are a prioritized set of cybersecurit... Clause: Control 11 – Data Recovery: 11.1 – Establish and Maintain a Data Recovery Process
          CIS
          Best Practice
          		 vv8 View →
          NPCI-ISR NPCI Information Security Requirements NPCI information-security requirements define cont... Clause: Operational Review; Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
          India
          Standard
          		 vLatest View →
          SOC2 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC9.1 – Risk Mitigation – The entity identifies, selects, and develops risk mitigation activities for risks arising from potential business disruptions. CC4.1 – Monitoring of Controls – COSO Principle 16: The entity selects, develops, and performs ongoing and/or separate evaluations to ascertain whether the components of internal control are present and functioning. CC4.2 – Monitoring of Controls – COSO Principle 17: The entity evaluates and communicates internal control deficiencies in a timely manner to those parties responsible for taking corrective action, including senior management and the board of directors, as appropriate.
          AICPA
          Audit Framework
          		 vLatest View →

          Parent Domain Context

          Governance Domain Baseline
          Domain Name:
          Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCM)
          Purpose:
          To maintain business operations and recover technology systems in the event of a disruption.
          Scope:
          Enterprise
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          Parent Control Context

          Control Baseline
          Control Name:
          Business Impact Analysis (BIA) (BCM-003)
          Summary:
          Establishes BIA including critical process identification, dependency analysis, business impact assessment, RTO definition, RPO definition, recovery prioritization, reporting, review, and continuous improvement.
          Business Description:
          Establish and maintain a Business Impact Analysis process to identify critical business services, dependencies, recovery priorities, Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
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