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Criterion CC7.5The entity identifies, develops, and implements activities to recover from identified security incidents.

What it says

The entity identifies, develops, and implements activities to recover from identified security incidents.

SOC 2, the trust services criteria, CC7.5

What is in the packs for this

Each one helps with this requirement.

  • Excel

    Trust Services Criteria Response Register

    in SOC 2 Report ReadinessThe register has a row for this criterion, for you to write down your own controls, owners and evidence against it. Lists the 61 Trust Services Criteria by number and series title, with blank columns for your own controls, owners and evidence. It makes no coverage claim.
  • Word

    Cyber Recovery Operating Procedure

    in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Cyber ResilienceIts Framework References cite this criterion. Sequences recovery after a destructive attack: assess, isolate, rebuild clean, restore data, validate, return to service.
  • Word

    Cyber Recovery Plan Template

    in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Cyber ResilienceIts Framework References cite this criterion. Service-level recovery plan with priorities, dependencies, clean-build sources and decision authorities.
  • Word

    IT Disaster Recovery Procedure

    in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Cyber ResilienceIts Framework References cite this criterion. Recovers the systems a critical service needs after a failure that is not an attack: the failover decision, each system's recovery method and runbook, and failback.

Criterion text: 2017 Trust Services Criteria (with revised points of focus, 2022). © 2022 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. All rights reserved. COSO principles © 2019 Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). All rights reserved. Reproduced from copies of AICPA's published text, which come from two lineages (the AICPA document in two versions, and one structured-data publisher) and agree across them; check it against AICPA's own before relying on it.