BCR-09: Impact Analysis

Control Statement

There shall be a defined and documented method for determining the impact of any disruption to the organization (cloud provider, cloud consumer) that must incorporate the following:

• Identify critical products and services
• Identify all dependencies, including processes, applications, business partners, and third party service providers
• Understand threats to critical products and services
• Determine impacts resulting from planned or unplanned disruptions and how these vary over time
• Establish the maximum tolerable period for disruption
• Establish priorities for recovery
• Establish recovery time objectives for resumption of critical products and services within their maximum tolerable period of disruption
• Estimate the resources required for resumption