Backup and Business Continuity Standard

Organization: Igzibo Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Version: 1.0
Status: Living policy
Effective Date: September 16, 2026
Owner: Igzibo Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Review Cycle: At least annually and after material changes to applicable law, client requirements, technology, or business operations.

1. Purpose

Establishes baseline requirements for protecting critical information and maintaining or restoring important business and technology operations after disruption.

2. Scope

Business systems, technology systems, critical project information, client information where contractually applicable, source code, business records, and personnel responsible for continuity.

Definitions

Backup: A separate copy of information or system state maintained to support recovery. BCP (Business Continuity Plan): A documented plan for maintaining or restoring important business functions during and after a disruption. BIA (Business Impact Analysis): An analysis used to identify important functions, dependencies, impacts, and recovery priorities. DR (Disaster Recovery): The coordinated process for restoring technology, systems, data, or services after disruption. Igzibo: Igzibo Engineering Solutions, Inc. RPO (Recovery Point Objective): The maximum acceptable data loss measured in time. RTO (Recovery Time Objective): The target time within which a system, service, or function should be restored.

3. Core Principles

Identify critical dependencies; maintain appropriate backups; protect backups from unauthorized access and alteration; test recovery; document responsibilities; and prioritize client and contractual requirements.

4. Business Impact and Recovery Objectives

Assess business, client, legal, financial, security, personnel, technology, and vendor impacts. Establish RTO and RPO targets appropriate to risk.

5. Backup and Security

Critical information should be backed up with appropriate frequency, retention, integrity, availability, confidentiality, and independence from the primary system. Protect backups against unauthorized deletion, alteration, and ransomware.

6. Recovery and Testing

Recovery plans should identify owners, dependencies, recovery sequence, credentials, vendors, restoration procedures, validation, and escalation. Test restoration and continuity procedures periodically according to risk.

7. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Continuity planning may include alternate personnel, communication methods, manual processes, alternate technology, vendor alternatives, and remote-work capabilities. DR must address infrastructure loss, data corruption, cyber incidents, vendor outages, credential compromise, and extended disruption.

8. Third-Party and Client Requirements

Assess critical vendor continuity. Follow client backup, retention, recovery, testing, incident, and geographic requirements where applicable.

9. Incidents, Records, Exceptions, and Enforcement

Coordinate security-related recovery with the Security Incident Response Procedure and preserve evidence. Retain appropriate recovery records. Exceptions require authorization. Violations may result in corrective, contractual, or access-related action.

10. References and Research Basis

• NIST, Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0.
• NIST, SP 800-34 Rev. 1, Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems.

NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1 is federal guidance. Igzibo uses it as a reference for contingency-planning concepts and does not represent itself as a federal agency.

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