SOC2-A1.2 A1.2 Environmental protection, backup and recovery infrastructure
SOC2-A1.2 in SOC 2 (the AICPA 2017 Trust Services Criteria with the revised points of focus). All SOC 2 controls held. Open SOC 2 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
A1.2 Environmental protection, backup and recovery infrastructure. Protection against environmental events, the supporting software, backup processes and recovery infrastructure are authorised, designed or acquired, implemented, operated, approved, maintained and monitored to meet objectives. Points of focus: environmental threats such as weather, failed environmental controls, electrical discharge, fire and water are identified in risk assessment; detection, protection mechanisms and alerts address them; response procedures, including automatic systems such as UPS and generators, are in place and evaluated; detected events are reviewed and acted on; data needing backup is determined;.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
HIPAA Security Rule
- 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(A) Data Backup Plan (Required) (closest match)
- 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(B) Disaster Recovery Plan (Required) (closest match)
- 164.308(a)(7)(ii)(E) Applications and Data Criticality Analysis (Addressable) (closest match)
- 164.310(a)(2)(i) Contingency Operations (Addressable) (closest match)
- 164.310(a)(2)(iv) Maintenance Records (Addressable) (closest match)
- 164.310(d)(2)(iv) Data Backup and Storage (Addressable) (closest match)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
- NIST800-CP-2 CP-2 Contingency Plan (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-6 CP-6 Alternate Storage Site (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-7 CP-7 Alternate Processing Site (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-8 CP-8 Telecommunications Services (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-9 CP-9 System Backup (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-10 CP-10 System Recovery and Reconstitution (closest match)
- NIST800-CP-11 CP-11 Alternate Communications Protocols (closest match)
- NIST800-MA-2 MA-2 Controlled Maintenance (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: A - Availability), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the capacity-monitoring record
- the backup and restore test record
- the recovery-plan test record
- the environmental-protection records