Implementing Identity Continuity With the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

This guidance outlines an identity continuity plan mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover, Govern), recommending inventorying applications and identities, routine continuity testing, continuous identity operations with cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-premises failovers, disaster recovery backups, monitoring and analytics, predefined failover/failback actions, and governance practices to ensure business continuity during identity provider outages.