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RiskTemplates · The Daily Brief Saturday, August 22, 2026
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Topic Resilience & Continuity

When the system goes down — what your program already had to have ready.

Business continuity, disaster recovery, and SOC 2 templates for the team that needs to prove resilience to regulators, auditors, and bank partners. Aligned with ISO 22301, FFIEC BCM, NIST SP 800-34, and AICPA SOC 2.

◆ ISO 22301 · FFIEC BCM · NIST SP 800-34 · AICPA SOC 2

◆ What you'll find here

Resilience that survives an examiner question.

◆ 01

BCP & BIA

Business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, dependency mapping, and the BCP plan structure that holds up during a real outage. Aligned with ISO 22301 and FFIEC BCM.

◆ 02

Disaster recovery

DR runbooks, technology recovery, tabletop exercises, and the test evidence regulators expect. Mapped to NIST SP 800-34 and FFIEC IT Examination Handbook.

◆ 03

SOC 2 readiness

The trust services criteria mapped to working controls. Built for fintechs and SaaS companies preparing for their first SOC 2 audit or maintaining Type II evidence year-round.

◆ Resilience templates

Tools for resilience teams.

BCP, DR, BIA, and SOC 2 templates with Excel workbooks and PDF guides. Buy once, tailor to your program, deploy in days.

Template
$79

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCP/DR) Kit

BCP and DR templates with BIA, recovery procedures, and a standalone tabletop exercise kit.

Template
$79

SOC 2 Compliance Checklist

151 readiness checks cross-referenced to the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, with evidence collection guidance.

Template
$79

Contingency Funding Plan — Banks

Examiner-ready contingency funding plan for chartered banks built to the 2023 Interagency Addendum.

Template
$79

Contingency Funding Plan — Fintechs

Contingency funding plan for sponsor-bank fintechs — FBO reconciliation, runway-based triggers, post-Synapse stress scenarios.

72+

Resilience articles

4

Frameworks · ISO · NIST · FFIEC · AICPA

US

Federal banking + SOC 2 ecosystem

◆ Latest analysis

From the journal.

Business Continuity

ISO 22301 Clause 9.3 Management Review: Agenda, Inputs, Decisions, and Evidence

Build an ISO 22301 management review decision pack that maps Clause 9.3 inputs to evidence, decisions, owners, and follow-up.

· 9 min read

Business Continuity

Tabletop Exercise Evaluation Rubric: Ratings, Assignments, and Observation Notes

Build a tabletop exercise evaluation rubric with evaluator assignments, evidence-based ratings, observation notes, calibration, and AAR handoff.

· 10 min read

Business Continuity

BIA Quality Assurance: Challenge Outliers and Calibrate Scores Across Business Units

Run business impact analysis quality assurance with outlier tests, challenge notes, score calibration, capability checks, and approval evidence.

· 9 min read

Business Continuity

Operational Resilience Critical-Service Dependency Crosswalk: Reconcile Processes, Systems, Vendors, Facilities, and People

A critical-service crosswalk reconciles your process, system, vendor, facility, and people inventories under a shared service ID—so your resilience program has one source of truth instead of five competing lists. Here's how to build it.

· 11 min read

Business Continuity

Tabletop Exercise Injects: Build an MSEL That Tests Decisions

A Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) is an exercise controller's run sheet—not a general bank or fintech regulatory requirement. Here's how to build one.

· 15 min read

Business Continuity

FCA Operational Resilience: Six Evidence Checks From Its One-Year Observations

The FCA's March 2026 publication gives good-practice examples and improvement areas—not an enforcement verdict. Use these six evidence checks.

· 7 min read

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