Disaster recovery and business continuity auditing

Given organizations' increasing dependency on information technology to run their operations, business continuity planning covers the entire organization, and disaster recovery focuses on IT.

Auditing documents covering an organization's business continuity and disaster recovery plans provides a third-party validation to stakeholders that the documentation is complete and does not contain material misrepresentations.

Lack of completeness can result in overlooking secondary effects, such as when vastly increased work-at-home overloads incoming recovery site telecommunications capacity, and the bi-weekly payroll that was not critical within the first 48 hours is now causing perceived problems in ever recovering, complicated by governmental and possibly union reaction.

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