A Business Continuity & Backup Policy Pack documents how your organisation keeps operating through disruption: who takes charge in a crisis, how backups run, and how systems are restored after a disaster. miniterms generates one combined pack structured to reflect the business-continuity measures in NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) Article 21(2)(c) — business continuity, backup management, disaster recovery, and crisis management.
Who this applies to
Every business can hold a continuity policy, so the option always appears in the Generate wizard. If NIS2 applies to your organisation as an essential or important entity, a documented continuity policy is part of the Article 21 risk-management measures — but whether you are in scope is your determination (and depends on your member state's implementing law); miniterms does not assess it.
What the pack includes
- Purpose & scope — the systems and services covered, with the Article 21(1) proportionality framing
- Roles & crisis management — the policy owner, a crisis contact chain, and an alternate communication channel
- Backup policy — frequency, scope, encryption, off-site copy, and retention, from what you declare
- Disaster recovery — your stated RTO/RPO, activation criteria, and a recovery-steps runbook skeleton
- Restore testing & evidence — the test cadence you commit to and a checklist of the evidence to keep
Honest gaps stay visible
If you declare that backups are not encrypted or have no off-site copy, the pack says so and marks it as a documented gap to remediate — it never silently omits a weakness. A policy that flatters your posture is worse than no policy when an incident is investigated.
What it does not do
The pack does not certify NIS2 compliance and does not make you in scope or out of scope. A written policy only demonstrates anything if it is operated: run the restore tests on the declared cadence and keep the evidence the pack lists. It is not individualised legal advice, and having a lawyer review it is optional.
Publishing
Generate, save, and publish the pack the same way as your other document types — through the Generate wizard and the Publish page.