CISA Domain 4: Business Continuity & DR Governance

This episode is part of the CISA Audit Judgment Series — a structured learning path focused on Domains 4 and 5, the heaviest-weighted areas of the CISA exam.

In this episode, we analyze a Disaster Recovery test that was declared “successful” — even though no real failover occurred, no production data was restored, and no business validation took place. The test passed on paper, but not in reality. This scenario exposes a major gap in operational resilience maturity.

You’ll learn:

✔ Why CISA focuses on DR test evidence, not documentation

✔ Why DR tests fail despite official reports showing success

✔ How junior auditors interpret DR vs. how audit leaders evaluate capability

✔ What evidence auditors must review for DR governance

✔ How to assess RTO/RPO validation, test scope, and business involvement

✔ What CISA is actually testing in continuity and recovery questions

✔ The risks when DR tests pass on paper but fail in practice

This episode teaches CISA exam judgment and real audit leadership — the core of the CyberLex Audit Judgment Series.

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