Maintaining the program and plan:
Testing, exercising, updating and reviewing

Better practice entities maintain the business continuity plan to reflect the entity’s objectives, its critical business functions, the corresponding processes and resources and agreed priority for recovery.

The following checklist may assist entities in maintaining their business continuity plans.

Checklist: Maintaining the business continuity management program - Download

Testing the plan

Testing the recovery processes documented in the business continuity plan will provide management assurance that these processes will be effective in the case of a business disruption.

The following checklist may assist entities in testing manual backup procedures.

Checklist: Testing manual backup procedures

The following checklist may assist entities in testing IT backup procedures.

Checklist: Testing IT backup procedures

Note: When the term application(s) is used in the above checklist, it refers to operating system software, support software, utilities, and communication software in addition to end user business applications.

_{Explanatory material about testing the business continuity plan can be found on this page of the better practice guide.}