Business continuity plans

Identifies business continuity plans patterns in security and access control contexts. Detects potential exposure of sensitive security information in international systems.

Type

regex

Engine

boost_regex

Confidence

medium

Confidence justification

category-aware structural regex with anchor and context constraints replaces phrase-only detection. Added context gating and exclusion rules improve precision and reduce incidental matches.

Detection quality

Mixed

Jurisdictions

global

Regulations

GDPR

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(?:business\s+continuity|continuity\s+plan|crisis\s+management|business\s+impact\s+analysis|critical\s+functions|alternate\s+site|recovery\s+strategy|essential\s+services|maximum\s+tolerable\s+downtime|succession\s+planning|emergency\s+operations)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

business continuity plans, business, continuity, plans, operations, resilience, student, transcript, grade, GPA, enrollment, FERPA, FAFSA, financial aid, tuition, degree, field, column, row, entry (+25 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• business continuity — Primary topic phrase match
• continuity plan — Case-insensitive topic phrase match
• crisis management — Alternative topic phrase match
• business impact analysis — Additional topic phrase match

Should not match

• unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present
• placeholder value 12345 — Random text should not match topic-specific regex
• backup outage — Generic word pair from old broad template should not match

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