IllumiDesk Security Docs
  • IllumiDesk Team Handbook
  • People Group
    • Introduction
    • General Employment
    • Employment Status & Recordkeeping
    • Working Conditions & Hours
    • Employee Benefits
    • Employee Conduct
    • Timekeeping & Payroll
  • Security and Compliance
    • Security Controls
      • BC.1.01 - Business Continuity Plan
        • IllumiDesk Business Continuity Plan
        • IllumiDesk Disaster Recovery
        • IllumiDesk Reference Architectures
        • IllumiDesk Handbook listing of DR for Databases
      • BC.1.0.2 - Business Continuity Plan: Roles and Responsibilities
      • BC.1.03 - Continuity Testing
      • BC.1.04 - Business Impact Analysis
        • Business Impact Analysis in the handbook
        • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) Policy
        • Data Protection Impact Assessments or DPIAs
        • UX Department
        • Triage Operations - Communication about expected automation impact
        • NIST BCP with reference to BIA
      • CFG.1.01 - Baseline Configuration Standard
        • Laptop or Desktop System configuration
        • Configuring New Laptops
        • Security Best Practices
      • CFG.1.03 - Configuration Checks
        • Production Change Requests Policy
      • CM.1.01 - Change Management Workflow
      • CM.1.02 - Change Approval
      • CM.1.03 - Change Management Issue Tracker
      • CM.1.04 - Emergency Changes
      • DM.1.01 - Data Classification Criteria
        • Data Classification Policy
      • DM.2.01 - Terms of Service
        • Application Terms of Use
      • DM.4.01 - Encryption of Data in Transit
        • Deprecate support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
      • DM.7.03 - Data Retention and Disposal Policy
      • IAM.1.01 - Logical Access Provisioning
        • Access Requests
        • Access Management Process
      • IAM.1.02 - Logical Access De-Provisioning
        • Access Management Process
        • Logical Access Deprovisioning
        • Access Reviews
        • IllumiDesk Offboarding Guidelines
      • IAM.1.04 - Logical Access Review
        • Access Reviews
      • IAM.1.05 - Transfers: Access De-Provisioning
        • Access Control Policy and Procedures
        • Job Transfers
        • Access Change Request
      • IAM.1.06 - Shared Logical Accounts
        • Security Process and Procedures for Team Members
        • Access Management Process
      • IAM.1.08 - New Access Provisioning
        • Access Requests
        • Access Management Process
      • IAM.2.01 - Unique Identifiers
        • Unique Account Identifiers
        • Access Control Policy and Procedures
        • Section on shared accounts in Okta handbook page
        • Access Management Process
      • IAM.2.02 - Password Authentication
      • IAM.2.03 - Multi-factor Authentication
      • IAM.3.02 - Source Code Security
      • IAM.4.01 - Remote Connections
      • IAM.6.01 - Key Repository Access
      • IR.1.01 - Incident Response Plan
      • IR.1.03 - Incident response
      • IR.1.04 - Insurance Policy
      • IR.2.02 - Incident Reporting
      • NO.1.01 - Network Policy Enforcement Points
      • PR.1.01 - Background Checks
      • RM.1.01 - Risk Assessment
      • RM.1.02 - Continuous Monitoring
        • Security Compliance
      • RM.1.04 - Service Risk Rating Assignment
      • RM.1.05 - Risk Management Policy
      • RM.3.01 - Remediation Tracking
      • SDM.1.01 - System Documentation
      • SG.1.01 - Policy and Standard Review
      • SG.2.01 - Information Security Program Content
      • SG.5.03 - Security Roles and Responsibilities
        • Incident Management Roles and Responsibilities
      • SG.5.06 - Board of Director Bylaws
        • Governance Documents
      • SG.5.07 - Board of Directors Security Program Content
        • Audit Committee Agenda Planner
      • SLC.1.01 - Service Lifecycle Workflow
      • SLC.2.01 - Source Code Management
      • SYS.1.01 - Audit Logging
      • SYS.2.01 - Security Monitoring Alert Criteria
      • SYS.2.07 - System Security Monitoring
      • TPM.1.01 - Third Party Assurance Review
      • TPM.1.02 - Vendor Risk Management
      • TRN.1.01 - General Security Awareness Training
        • Security Awareness Training
      • TRN.1.02 - Code of Conduct Training
      • VUL.1.01 - Vulnerability Scans
      • VUL.1.03 - Approved Scanning Vendor
      • VUL.2.01 - Application & Infrastructure Penetration Testing
      • VUL.3.01 - Infrastructure Patch Management
      • VUL.3.02 - End of Life Software
      • VUL.4.01 - Enterprise Protection
      • VUL.5.01 - Code Security Check
      • VUL.6.01 - External Information Security Inquiries
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BC.1.03 - Continuity Testing

Control Statement

IllumiDesk performs business continuity and disaster recovery tests annually and ensures the following:

  • Tests are executed with relevant contingency teams.

  • Test results are documented.

  • Corrective actions are taken for exceptions noted.

  • Plans are updated based on results.

Context

The business continuity plan is only useful if it is both maintained and validated. The testing part of this process is meant to be that validation and determines the efficacy of the plan. The purpose of this control is to determine if the business continuity plan would work in the event of a disruption to normal IllumiDesk operations. The business continuity test must have these three main categories:

  • Recovery Planning: Ensuring that Recovery processes and procedures are executed and maintained to timely restoration of systems or assets affected by any disruptive event.

  • Improvements: Recovery planning and processes are improved by incorporating lessons learned into future activities.

  • Communications: Restoration activities are coordinated with internal and external parties: such as coordinating centers, Internet Service Providers, system owners, victims and vendors.

Scope

This control is a subset of the Business Continuity control. It defines that, a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) must be tested and updated on a regular basis to ensure its effectiveness in the event of a disaster and its continuing relevance to the Business. The process should include the testing of data recovery, information asset management, leadership response and recovery procedures. A process to do a full simulation of these, at least once each year with different, realistic scenarios that test the effectiveness of IllumiDesk's Business Continuity plan should be the goal.

All parts of the business continuity plan should be tested. All teams and services that have a documented business continuity plan should have a corresponding documented test.

Ownership

  • Business Operations owns this control.

  • Infrastructure will provide implementation support for .com

Guidance

  • Tabletop exercises would be a reasonable way to test yearly

  • But a full simulation should take place at least biennially for each team and service

Additional control information and project tracking

Non-public information relating to this security control as well as links to the work associated with various phases of project work can be found in the Continuity Testing control issue.

Policy Reference

Framework Mapping

  • SOC2 CC

    • CC7.5

    • CC9.1

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