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title: Review and Audit Service Continuity
slug: citsmart-8-en/review-and-audit-service-continuity
description: Learn how to successfully navigate the fourth phase of the Continuity Registration process with this comprehensive document. Discover step-by-step instructions for tasks such as Continuity Awareness, Review and Audit, Testing, and Invocation. Ensure a smo
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createdAt: 2022-01-19T22:53:25.000Z
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The Continuity Registration is a process that passes through several phases. The fourth phase of this process is the Continuous Operation, where the Continuity Awareness (education and training), Continuity Review and Audit, Continuity Testing, and Invocation will be defined. It allows reviewing and auditing the service Continuity.

## Before getting started

- [x] Make sure there is a defined service in the Portfolio and Catalog
   Management process;
- [x] First, register the Continuity Registration, the
   policy and the service continuity project already defined;
- [x] Also, have
   the scope, vital functions, business impact analysis, risk assessment, strategy,
   plan, organizational planning, testing strategy, and awareness of Continuity already registered;
- [x] Make sure to have registered the threat and the threat category both linked to
   each other. It is also essential to have registered the risk and the risk category.
- [x] Finally, previously register the automatic actions of
   the incident, request, and procedure about the Event Management.

## Procedure

1. Access the functionality through the main menu `Processes > Continuity
    Management > Continuity`;
2. Find the continuity you want to review and audit, and click on "**Advance**";
3. In **Continuous Operation**, click on "**Review and Audit**";
4. Click on the tab "**Audit Registered**" to make a specific search of the changes
    made in the continuity registry when informing the period you want, select
    the category and click on "**Search**";
5. To verify more details about the change made, just click on "**Expand**";
6. Click on the tab "**Audit Registration**" to register the details of the audit
    made. Complete the fields necessary and click on "**Save**".

## What to do next

After reviewing and auditing the service continuity, it is necessary to verify the continuity test calendar, and to action part of the fourth
 phase of the complete registration of the Continuity called Continuous
ly Operation.