Australian Information Security Manual
Guidelines for system management

Australian Information Security Manual ISM-1811: Secure and resilient retention of backups

Backups of data, applications and settings are retained in a secure and resilient manner.

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This control maps to 8 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-1811 Regular backups (ISM-1811): Backups of data, applications and settings are retained in a secure and resilient manner

CIS Controls v8 · 2 controls

  • CIS-11.3 Protect Recovery Data
  • CIS-11.4 Establish and Maintain an Isolated Instance of Recovery Data

ISO 27002:2022 · 1 control

  • 8.13 Information backup

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