Goal: Access the relative criticality of specific applications and data in support of other contingency plan components.
The purpose of this policy is to review what the organization should do to have a formal process for defining and identifying the criticality of its information systems.
Procedure: The Security Manager shall prepare a data criticality log where available systems shall be ranked.
- The Security Manager will access all available system and determine the priority of systems in case of emergencies.
- Priority list will be based on importance to restore during emergency operations.
- Backups will use this priority listing to facilitate recovery in cases of emergency.
- Disaster recovery and emergency operation planning will also take into consideration the criticality list when deployed.
