Disaster recovery runbooks

Name: Disaster recovery runbooks
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Identifies disaster recovery runbooks patterns in security and access control contexts. Detects potential exposure of sensitive security information in Australian systems.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: structural regex with domain-specific anchors and constrained context replaces phrase-only marker.
Detection quality: Mixed
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: NDB Scheme (Cth), SOCI Act 2018 (Cth), TIA Act 1979 (Cth)
Frameworks: CIS Controls, DISP, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
Data categories: credentials, security
Scope: wide
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?is)\b(?:disaster\s+recovery|dr\s+runbook|rto|rpo|recovery\s+time\s+objective)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

disaster recovery runbooks, disaster, recovery, runbooks, operations, resilience

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Disaster recovery runbooks — Exact phrase marker match
disaster recovery runbooks — Case-insensitive phrase match
Disaster recovery runbooks — Normalized whitespace phrase
structured sample with matching anchors — Structural anchor sample

Should not match

unrelated generic text — No relevant phrase context
placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match phrase marker
generic policy prose without anchors — Should reject generic mentions without structural anchor terms

Known false positives

Authentication-related terminology in software documentation, security training materials, or system architecture descriptions without actual credentials. Mitigation: Require proximity to credential-specific patterns (API keys, connection strings, tokens) rather than general security terminology.
Code snippets and configuration examples containing credential-related keywords or placeholder values in developer documentation. Mitigation: Check for common placeholder patterns (example.com, localhost, 0000) and documentation file types to reduce false positives from technical writing.

References

https://www.cyber.gov.au/resources-business-and-government/essential-cyber-security/ism
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/emergency-management
https://www.disasterassist.gov.au/
https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/australian-privacy-principles-guidelines/chapter-11-app-11-security-of-personal-information