Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan
Generate a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan with a business impact analysis, RTO/RPO targets, and tested recovery procedures.
What's in the policy
Keeps the business running through disruptions with defined RTO/RPO and recovery procedures.
What the document actually says
These are the standing requirements every generated copy of the document is written from — the clause text itself, not a description of it. The document you receive is drafted on top of them: it expands on them and fills the current-state detail from your intake, and the generator is instructed to keep them, to state them fully, and never to claim a certification or invent a fact you did not supply.
Recovery objectives, stated as a number instead of a bracket
What has to be true of every backup
What resilience requires beyond a backup
Filled in for a real stack
Backup process: To be confirmed. Hosting / infrastructure: To be confirmed. Cloud provider: To be confirmed.
Backup process: RDS automated backups nightly with point-in-time recovery, plus a periodic export to S3 with cross-region replication. Hosting / infrastructure: containers on ECS spread across two AWS availability zones behind a load balancer. Cloud provider: AWS, primary region us-east-1 with the replica in a second region.
What the auditor asks for alongside it
Where these documents go stale
A business continuity plan is written against an infrastructure snapshot, and infrastructure is the part of the company that changes without a change request against this document. A managed database gets a read replica in a second zone; nobody updates the resilience section to say so. A backup export moves from a scheduled job on one box to a managed service, and the process you described at intake no longer matches what actually runs. The default recovery targets are marked 'to be confirmed per system' precisely because a real per-system number takes work nobody has gotten to, so the default quietly becomes the answer by default rather than by decision. The clause most likely to be false on any given day is the restore-test bullet: a quarterly test that slipped a quarter is invisible until the day a restore is actually needed. Re-validate by re-running the exercise, confirming the runbook still matches the infrastructure, and revisiting the recovery targets per system instead of leaving the default standing indefinitely.
Tell us about your stack
Answer a short intake — cloud, data types, tools. No agents to install.
We generate a tailored draft
Not a blank template: a document written for your environment and pre-mapped to controls.
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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plan, answered
What is a business continuity and disaster recovery plan?
It states how an organization keeps operating and restores its technology after a disruption — an outage, an attack, a lost dependency. It sets recovery objectives, requires tested backups, and specifies the redundancy and runbooks that get a critical system back online, rather than leaving the response to be worked out during the incident.
What are RTO and RPO, and where do the numbers come from?
Recovery Time Objective is the longest a service may be down; Recovery Point Objective is the most data you can afford to lose. The plan ships a default — 24 hours and 4 hours for critical systems — marked 'to be confirmed per system', so you start from a stated position instead of a blank one.
Does SOC 2 require a business continuity and disaster recovery plan?
In substance, yes. SOC 2's Availability criteria, A1.2 in particular, expect a plan for recovering critical systems, and ISO 27001 covers the same ground under A.5.29 and A.5.30. Auditors ask for the written plan, the backup and restore-testing evidence behind it, and proof that a continuity exercise has actually been run.
How often do backups have to be tested?
Restores are tested at least quarterly, not just taken. The plan requires the test to confirm a backup is actually recoverable and intact, not only that a backup job completed, and requires the result to be documented — an untested backup is treated the same as no backup at all.
What's the difference between this and the Backup & Recovery Policy?
They're the same document. Backups are a section of this plan rather than a separate file — cadence, encryption, restore testing, and retention all live here. A dedicated backup page exists because people search for it on its own, but generating it produces this full continuity and recovery plan, not a standalone backup policy.
Does this cover redundancy and failover, or only backups?
Both. Backups are one section; a separate section requires redundancy such as multi-AZ or managed failover sized to the recovery targets, current runbooks for critical systems, and an annual exercise that feeds lessons learned back into the plan. A backup alone does not satisfy this document.
How does Pentest Today generate the policy?
Answer a short intake about your stack and we generate a tailored draft — not a blank template — pre-mapped to the controls your framework requires. You review, edit, and export it.
Can I edit the generated policy?
Yes. Every document is a starting draft you can edit, brand, and export. It's written to be review-ready but stays fully under your control.
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