Glossary: Security Controls and Change Management

Backout plan

Also written: backout, backout planning, rollback, roll back

Written steps, agreed before a change, for undoing it and returning to the last known good state; it names a trigger, a decide-by time, who decides, the steps and how to check the result. Alex's plan for KC-CHG-014 restores the 1:00 a.m. backup in 22 minutes.