ISO 17799 (BS 7799) Information Security Auditing Tool

ISO IEC 17799 2000 INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL 11. BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT AUDIT
11.1 DESIGN A CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS
1	Have you developed a business continuity management process to protect your critical business processes during business disruptions, security failures, and disasters?	YES	NO	N/A
2	Is your business continuity management process used to prevent business disruptions, security failures, and disasters?	YES	NO	N/A
3	Is your business continuity management process used to recover from business disruptions, security failures, and disasters?	YES	NO	N/A
4	Is your business continuity management process used to identify and reduce risks?	YES	NO	N/A
5	Is your business continuity management process used to ensure that essential operations are restored as quickly as possible?	YES	NO	N/A
6	Is your business continuity management process used to limit the impact that damaging incidents could have?	YES	NO	N/A
7	Have you analyzed the impact that disasters could have on your critical business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
8	Have you analyzed the impact that security failures could have on your critical business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
9	Have you analyzed the impact that a loss of service could have on your critical business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
10	Have you developed contingency plans in order to ensure that critical business processes are restored within a reasonable period of time?	YES	NO	N/A
11	Do you practice implementing your contingency plans?	YES	NO	N/A
11.1.1 ESTABLISH YOUR CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS
12	Have you established a process to manage and maintain business continuity throughout your organization?	YES	NO	N/A
13	Have you identified and prioritized your most critical business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
14	Have you identified the risks that threaten the security of your business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
15	Have you estimated the likelihood that your organization will be exposed to significant security risks and threats?	YES	NO	N/A
16	Have you analyzed the impact that serious threats could have on the security of your organization’s processes?	YES	NO	N/A
17	Have you analyzed the impact that interruptions could have on the viability of your business?	YES	NO	N/A
18	Have you found solutions to the security problems that could undermine the viability of your business?	YES	NO	N/A
19	Have you found solutions for the security threats and problems that are smaller and less serious?	YES	NO	N/A
20	Have you increased your security through the purchase of suitable insurance?	YES	NO	N/A
21	Have you formulated business objectives and priorities for your information processing facilities?	YES	NO	N/A
22	Have you formulated a business continuity strategy for your information processing facilities?	YES	NO	N/A
23	Have you documented your continuity strategy?	YES	NO	N/A
24	Is your business continuity strategy consistent with your business objectives and priorities?	YES	NO	N/A
25	Have you formulated business continuity plans for your information processing facilities?	YES	NO	N/A
26	Have you documented your business continuity plans?	YES	NO	N/A
27	Are your business continuity plans consistent with your business continuity strategy?	YES	NO	N/A
28	Has responsibility for coordinating your continuity management process been assigned to someone at the appropriate level within your organization?	YES	NO	N/A
29	Have you institutionalized continuity management?	YES	NO	N/A
11.1.2 PERFORM THREAT ANALYSIS AND IMPACT ANALYSIS
30	Have you carried out a threat analysis in order to identify the events that could interrupt your business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
31	Did you carry out your threat analysis with the full involvement of process and resource owners?	YES	NO	N/A
32	Did your threat analysis include all business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
33	Have you carried out a risk assessment in order to identify the impact that business process interruptions could have?	YES	NO	N/A
34	Has your impact analysis identified how much damage your business process interruptions could cause?	YES	NO	N/A
35	Has your impact analysis identified how long it would take to recover from business process interruptions?	YES	NO	N/A
36	Did you carry out your impact analysis with the full involvement of process and resource owners?	YES	NO	N/A
37	Did your impact analysis include all business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
38	Did you use the results of your analyses and assessments to develop a strategy that defines your organization’s general approach to business continuity?	YES	NO	N/A
39	Did your senior management endorse your general business continuity strategy?	YES	NO	N/A
11.1.3 DEVELOP YOUR BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANS
40	Have you developed plans to restore and continue business operations after critical processes have failed or been interrupted?	YES	NO	N/A
41	Do your business continuity plans help you to achieve your business objectives?	YES	NO	N/A
42	Do your business continuity plans help you to restore services to customers within a reasonable time period?	YES	NO	N/A
43	Do your business continuity plans identify the resources that will be needed to restore your business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
44	Do your business continuity plans identify the services that will be needed to restore your business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
45	Do your business continuity plans identify the staffing that will be needed to restore your business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
46	Do your business continuity plans identify and assign all emergency management responsibilities?	YES	NO	N/A
47	Do your business continuity plans define all necessary emergency response procedures?	YES	NO	N/A
48	Do your emergency response procedures ensure that your critical processes will be recovered and restored within the required time limits?	YES	NO	N/A
49	Do your emergency response procedures accommodate and deal with all external business interdependencies?	YES	NO	N/A
50	Do your emergency response procedures respect and reflect all related business contracts?	YES	NO	N/A
51	Have you documented emergency response procedures?	YES	NO	N/A
52	Have you documented critical business processes?	YES	NO	N/A
53	Do your business continuity plans identify fallback arrangements for information processing facilities?	YES	NO	N/A
54	Have you taught your staff members how to use your emergency response procedures?	YES	NO	N/A
55	Have you taught your staff members how your critical business processes will be recovered and restored?	YES	NO	N/A
56	Have you taught your staff members about your crisis management methods and procedures?	YES	NO	N/A
57	Do you regularly test your business continuity plans?	YES	NO	N/A
58	Do you regularly update your business continuity plans?	YES	NO	N/A
11.1.4 MAINTAIN A CONTINUITY PLANNING FRAMEWORK
59	Have you established a single framework of business continuity plans in order to ensure that all plans are consistent with one another?	YES	NO	N/A
60	Do you use your business continuity planning framework to determine plan testing priorities?	YES	NO	N/A
61	Do you use your business continuity planning framework to determine plan maintenance priorities?	YES	NO	N/A
62	Does each business continuity plan include a maintenance schedule that explains how and when the plan will be tested and maintained?	YES	NO	N/A
63	Do you amend your business continuity plans whenever new security threats or requirements are identified?	YES	NO	N/A
64	Does each business continuity plan clearly specify the conditions that must met before it is activated?	YES	NO	N/A
65	Does each business continuity plan specify the process that must be followed before a plan may be activated?	YES	NO	N/A
66	Does each business continuity plan explain how a crisis situation should be assessed before a plan is activated?	YES	NO	N/A
67	Does each business continuity plan specify who should be contacted and involved before a plan may be activated?	YES	NO	N/A
68	Does each business continuity plan clearly specify who is responsible for executing each part of the plan?	YES	NO	N/A
69	Does each business continuity plan nominate alternative personnel who would be responsible for executing the plan if those who are primarily responsible are unable to do so?	YES	NO	N/A
70	Does each business continuity plan describe the emergency procedures that must be followed and the actions that must be taken to handle security incidents?	YES	NO	N/A
71	Does each business continuity plan explain how relations with the public must be managed during an emergency?	YES	NO	N/A
72	Does each business continuity plan explain how relations with governmental agencies and authorities should be managed during an emergency?	YES	NO	N/A
73	Does each business continuity plan explain how relations with emergency responders should be managed during an emergency?	YES	NO	N/A
74	Does each business continuity plan describe fallback procedures that should be followed to move essential business activities and services to alternative locations?	YES	NO	N/A
75	Does each business continuity plan describe fallback procedures that should be followed to reactivate your business processes within the required time limits?	YES	NO	N/A
76	Does each business continuity plan describe resumption procedures that should be followed to bring your business processes and services back to normal?	YES	NO	N/A
77	Does each business continuity plan describe the education and awareness activities that should be carried out to help ensure that staff members understand your business continuity methods and procedures?	YES	NO	N/A
78	Does each business continuity plan specify who owns and is responsible for managing and maintaining the plan?	YES	NO	N/A
79	Have owners of business processes and resources been given the responsibility to manage the implementation of related fallback and business resumption plans?	YES	NO	N/A
80	Are owners of business processes and resources responsible for managing the implementation of the emergency response procedures that effect their areas?	YES	NO	N/A
81	Are technical service providers responsible for managing the implementation of alternative technical services and fallback arrangements?	YES	NO	N/A
82	Are information service providers responsible for managing the implementation of alternative information processing facilities and fallback arrangements?	YES	NO	N/A
83	Are communications service providers responsible for managing the implementation of alternative communications facilities and fallback arrangements?	YES	NO	N/A
	*Etcetera ...*	YES	NO	N/A

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ISO IEC 17799 2000 (BS 7799) INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL
TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART		PAGE
1	Audit Profile	3
2	Audit Overview	4
3	Security Policy Audit	5
4	Organizational Security Audit	8
5	Asset Classification and Control Audit	21
6	Personnel Security Management Audit	25
7	Physical and Environmental Security Audit	33
8	Communications and Operations Management Audit	43
9	Information Access Management Control Audit	69
10	Systems Development and Maintenance Audit	95
11	Business Continuity Management Audit	<< SAMPLE
12	Compliance Management Audit	122
13	Security Performance Scores	135
14	Legal and Contact Information	136
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ISO IEC 17799 2000 (BS 7799) INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL

ISO IEC 17799 2000 INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL

ISO IEC 17799 2000 (BS 7799)
INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL

ISO IEC 17799 2000
INFORMATION SECURITY AUDIT TOOL