RES-03Resilience and Response

Backups that restore

Backups exist, are protected from the same failure as production, and restoration is tested.

Why it exists

An untested backup is a hope with a storage bill.

What usually proves it

Backup configuration, restore test records, retention.

Smaller organizations

One restore test a year, written down.

Mapped to

  • Fully addressedSOC 2 Trust Services Criteria · A1.2
  • Fully addressedISO/IEC 27001 Annex A · A.8.13
  • Fully addressedNIST Cybersecurity Framework · PR.DS-11
  • Partially addressedPCI DSS · 12.10.1 — Referenced through recovery in incident response.
  • Fully addressedHIPAA Security Rule · 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A)
  • Fully addressedGDPR · Art. 32(1)(c)
  • Deliberately absentEU AI Act — Not addressed.
  • Partially addressedNIST AI Risk Management Framework · MANAGE 4.3 — Resilience to failure.