Backup and recovery policy
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For service owners, recovery owners and technology operators to define backup scope, protection, retention, monitoring, restoration tests, failure response and change.
- Document type
- Policy
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-15
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Internal use
Description
For service owners, recovery owners and technology operators to define backup scope, protection, retention, monitoring, restoration tests, failure response and change.
Contents
- Document control
- Purpose of this policy
- Recovery loss scenarios
- Recovery points and acceptable data loss
- Recoverable service population
- SaaS recovery limitations
- Recovery-copy separation
- Backup platform security
- Restore authorization and data handling
- Backup schedules and loss tolerance
- Changes affecting recoverability
- Backup monitoring and usability
- Recovery test levels and evidence
- Service-owner participation in recovery tests
- Recovery result states
- Incident recovery and evidence preservation
- Trusted service rebuild
- Backup retirement
Version history
- v1.015/09/2026