Question 610
During an outsourced-services renewal at a logistics group, the IS auditor learns that a recently launched service is missing from the impact and recovery tier register. The affected operation supports freight tracking and fleet operations. Delivery commitments and partner data flow through this process. Which risk should the auditor treat as the PRIMARY concern arising from these facts?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Correct. Recovery objectives may not match actual business disruption tolerance when the BIA is incomplete or unapproved. The described exception is: a recently launched service is missing from the impact and recovery tier register. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of freight tracking and fleet operations, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.
Incorrect Answers
Uncontrolled scheduling, retry and job monitoring can cause incomplete, duplicate or unreported processing. It protects a different risk than the evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion requirement.
Successful backup jobs may not provide usable, secure or timely recovery under realistic failures or attacks. Recurrence here depends on evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not this safeguard.
Continuity plans may be unusable under actual disruption because people, procedures and dependencies were not rehearsed. That protection can exist while evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion is still missing.