Why it matters
Backups are not a recovery plan. Many organizations discover during an outage that their backups are incomplete, that restoring takes days instead of hours, or that no one knows which systems to bring back first.
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning starts with the business, not the technology. Which processes keep the lights on? How long can each be down? How much data can you afford to lose? Once those answers are clear, the technical recovery plan follows — and it can be tested.
Is this right for you?
This service is a good fit if:
- You have backups but have never tested a full recovery
- Customers, regulators, or a framework require a continuity or disaster recovery plan
- You depend heavily on a few key systems or vendors
- You're worried about how long you could operate during a ransomware attack
- You've grown, moved to the cloud, or changed providers since your last plan
What's included
Business impact analysis
Identify critical business processes and the systems, people, and vendors they depend on.
Recovery objectives
Set realistic recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives for each critical process and system.
Backup and recovery review
Assess whether your backups are protected from ransomware, complete, and able to meet your recovery objectives.
Business continuity plan
How the business keeps operating during a disruption — alternate processes, locations, and communication.
Disaster recovery plan
Step-by-step technical procedures and priorities for restoring systems and data.
Testing and exercises
Walkthroughs and recovery tests to prove the plans work, with documented results.
Frameworks we work with
- NIST SP 800-34
- ISO 22301
- NIST CSF 2.0
- SOC 2 Availability
- HIPAA contingency planning
What you receive
- Business impact analysis report
- Recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) matrix
- Business continuity plan
- Disaster recovery plan and recovery runbooks
- Test plan and test results report
How it works
- 1
Review
Interview process owners and IT to understand critical operations and dependencies.
- 2
Evaluate
Complete the business impact analysis and compare current recovery capabilities to what the business needs.
- 3
Build
Write the continuity and recovery plans with your team.
- 4
Enhance
Test the plans, document results, and close the gaps.
Common questions
What's the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery?
Business continuity keeps the business running during a disruption. Disaster recovery restores the technology afterward. You need both, and they work best when planned together.
We use cloud services — do we still need this?
Yes. Cloud services reduce some risks but not all. Accounts get compromised, data gets deleted, and providers have outages. Your plan should cover how you'd recover in each case.
How often should we test?
At least once a year, and after major changes. Tabletop walkthroughs are a low-cost way to test between full recovery exercises.