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Mini Bundle: Incident Response & Business Continuity - ENT

Comprehensive bundle covering incident response, evidence handling, continuity, backup, legal compliance, and external communication for enterprise resilience.

Overview

This bundle provides a comprehensive set of policies for incident response, forensic evidence handling, business continuity, disaster recovery, secure backup, legal and regulatory compliance, and external communications, essential for maintaining enterprise resilience and fulfilling regulatory obligations across the organization.

Robust Incident Response

Formal structure for identification, analysis, containment, and post-incident review to minimize business impact.

Evidence and Forensic Integrity

Ensures legally defensible evidence collection, chain of custody, and compliance with global forensic standards.

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Unified framework for continuity, disaster recovery planning, testing, and recovery of critical operations.

Legal & Regulatory Assurance

Tracks and embeds compliance with laws, standards, contractual, and sector-specific obligations throughout the organization.

Secure External Communications

Controls risks in social media and public messaging; ensures accuracy and regulatory compliance in all statements.

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The 'Mini Bundle: Incident Response & Business Continuity - ENT' consolidates the organization's policies essential for holistic operational resilience, coordinated incident handling, forensic rigor, continuity management, secure data backup, compliance assurance, and controlled external communications. These policies establish a repeatable, scalable methodology for responding to security incidents, covering the entire lifecycle from detection and containment to root cause analysis and post-incident review. All operational units, personnel, and environments, on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, are subject to these controls, ensuring the organization's capacity to respond promptly and comply with legal breach notification frameworks such as GDPR, NIS2, and DORA. Incident response capabilities are supported by formalized reporting and escalation paths, regular exercise of response plans, integrated breach notification protocols, and recovery workflows tightly linked to business impact analysis outputs, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and prioritized system tiers. The Evidence Collection and Forensics Policy ensures that digital evidence is handled with strict integrity, using approved forensic tools, maintaining an unbroken chain of custody, and adhering to international standards such as ISO/IEC 27035 and NIST SP 800 series. It further requires secure repositories, rigorous documentation, and coordination with legal counsel when criminal or regulatory proceedings are anticipated. Business continuity and disaster recovery planning, as set forth, relies on systematic risk assessment, impact analysis, annual resilience testing (including failovers and tabletop drills), and ongoing improvement cycles. Recovery plans, backup procedures, and alternate workflows are documented, version-controlled, and integrated with organizational change management, ensuring that disruption preparedness remains current and actionable. The Backup and Restore Policy mandates frequent, encrypted backups, redundancy across geographic locations, restoration integrity validation, and immutable record-keeping for key assets and systems. Compliance supervision is provided by oversight teams who audit logs, backup success rates, and restoration drill outcomes routinely. Legal and regulatory assurance is woven into each policy, with a centralized compliance obligations register tracking laws, certifications, and contract terms relevant to information security and privacy. Departmental leaders, compliance officers, and legal advisors collaborate to interpret new mandates, update policies, and train personnel on evolving obligations. Vendor and partner engagements are subject to explicit compliance reviews, contractual clauses, and termination rights for risk control. Finally, social media and external communication risks are formally managed under strict guidelines for account access, brand monitoring, official messaging, and incident escalation. Crisis communication protocols ensure that any violation, impersonation, or brand attack is quickly contained, reviewed, and remedied in collaboration with legal and PR leads, with all incidents documented for regulatory and audit purposes. Collectively, this bundle delivers a unified, multi-domain framework for enterprise-class resilience, regulatory alignment, and operational assurance. Each policy is rooted in globally accepted standards and regulations (ISO/IEC 27001/27002, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 22301, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, COBIT), providing both technical detail and audit-ready governance for organizations seeking robust, end-to-end coverage of incident response and business continuity.

What's Inside

Incident Response Framework & Metrics

Forensic Evidence Collection & Chain of Custody

Business Impact Analysis, BCP & DRP Procedures

Backup, Restore, and Data Resilience Standards

Legal, Regulatory, and Contractual Compliance Controls

Social Media & External Communication Governance

Framework Compliance

🛡️ Supported Standards & Frameworks

This product is aligned with the following compliance frameworks, with detailed clause and control mappings.

Framework Covered Clauses / Controls
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
ISO/IEC 27002:2022
ISO 22301:2019
Business Continuity Management System Requirements
NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5
NIST SP 800-34 Rev.1
Contingency Planning Framework
NIST SP 800-101 Rev.1
Mobile-Media Forensics
NIST SP 800-86
Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident Response
EU GDPR
Article 5Article 6Article 24Article 32Article 33Article 34Recital 49
EU NIS2
EU DORA
COBIT 2019

Related Policies

Incident Response Policy

This policy establishes a formal structure for the identification, reporting, analysis, containment, response, recovery, and post-incident evaluation of information security incidents affecting the organization.

Evidence Collection And Forensics Policy

This policy establishes a structured, legally defensible framework for the identification, collection, preservation, analysis, and disposal of digital evidence during actual or suspected security incidents.

Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Policy

This policy defines the mandatory controls and responsibilities for ensuring the organization’s ability to sustain or recover critical business operations and supporting ICT services during and after a disruptive incident.

Backup And Restore Policy

The purpose of this policy is to define the mandatory requirements for the backup and restoration of data, systems, and applications to support operational resilience, data integrity, and business continuity.

Legal And Regulatory Compliance Policy

This policy establishes the mandatory framework for identifying, managing, and complying with all legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations relevant to the organization’s information security, data privacy, and operational functions.

Social Media And External Communications Policy

This policy establishes mandatory rules and responsibilities governing the use of social media and all forms of external communication by personnel affiliated with the organization.

About Clarysec Policies - Mini Bundle: Incident Response & Business Continuity - ENT

Effective security governance requires more than just words; it demands clarity, accountability, and a structure that scales with your organization. Generic templates often fail, creating ambiguity with long paragraphs and undefined roles. This policy is engineered to be the operational backbone of your security program. We assign responsibilities to the specific roles found in a modern enterprise, including the CISO, IT Security, and relevant committees, ensuring clear accountability. Every requirement is a uniquely numbered clause (e.g., 5.1.1, 5.1.2). This atomic structure makes the policy easy to implement, audit against specific controls, and safely customize without affecting document integrity, transforming it from a static document into a dynamic, actionable framework.

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Built for Leaders, By Leaders

This policy was authored by a security leader with 25+ years of experience deploying and auditing ISMS frameworks for global enterprises. It's designed not just to be a document, but a defensible framework that stands up to auditor scrutiny.

Authored by an expert holding:

MSc Cyber Security, Royal Holloway UoL CISM CISA ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor & Implementer CEH

Coverage & Topics

🏢 Target Departments

IT Security Compliance Risk Legal Executive Audit Governance Regulator Interaction

🏷️ Topic Coverage

Incident Management Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Forensics Legal Compliance Compliance Management Security Communication Security Governance Crisis Management
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Product Details

Type: Mini Bundle
Category: ent-pack
Standards: 11