Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for system management

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-1515: Testing restoration to a common point

Restoration of data, applications and settings from backups to a common point in time is tested as part of disaster recovery exercises.

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This control maps to 9 controls across 4 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

ACSC Essential Eight · 4 controls

  • E8-BACKUP-ML1 Regular Backups (ML1)
  • E8-BACKUP-ML2 Regular Backups (ML2)
  • E8-BACKUP-ML3 Regular Backups (ML3)
  • E8-BACKUP-ISM-1515 Regular backups (ISM-1515): Restoration of data, applications and settings from backups to a common point in time is tested as part of disaster recovery exercises

ISO 27002:2022 · 2 controls

  • 5.30 ICT readiness for business continuity
  • 8.13 Information backup
  • NIST-CSF-PR.DS-11 Backups of data are created, protected, maintained, and tested
  • NIST-CSF-RC.RP-03 The integrity of backups and other restoration assets is verified before using them for restoration

CIS Controls v8 · 1 control

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