The Audit of Business Continuity Management

Abstract

The Internet hosts vast resources of use to auditors, and auditors contemplating the review of business continuity management (BCM) are particularly fortunate. The three documents described below provide auditors with the armory to address this important area with confidence. Combined, these provide:

• A full description of business continuity management, with the reasons for its practice

• The reasons for reviewing business continuity management

• A methodology for conducting a review of BCM

• The knowledge necessary to conduct a review of the technological aspects of BCM, that is, the Disaster Recovery Plan