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Business Continuity & Recovery

Almost every organisation we assess has backups. Far fewer can say how long it would take to get the business running again, in what order, or who makes the call to start. This engagement closes that gap. We work out which processes the business genuinely cannot operate without and what an outage actually costs, set recovery time and recovery point targets against what you can absorb, write the runbooks that turn a crisis into a procedure, and then prove the whole thing by restoring into an isolated environment and timing it. Where the test shows you cannot meet your targets, that finding is the point of the exercise — it is far cheaper to learn it on a Tuesday afternoon than during a ransomware incident.

Our Process

Business Impact Analysis

We identify the processes the business cannot run without, what an hour and a day of downtime costs each one, and the order in which things have to come back.

Recovery Objectives

Recovery time and recovery point targets set per system against what the business can actually absorb — and an honest read of where your current arrangements cannot meet them.

Runbooks & Decision Rights

Written, specific recovery procedures: who declares an incident, who is called, what is restored in what order, and where the credentials live when the network is down.

Restore Testing

We restore into an isolated environment and time it. Data integrity is verified on the restored copy — a backup job reporting success is not the same thing as a usable system.

Exercise & Review

A ransomware tabletop with the people who would actually be in the room, the plan updated from whatever breaks, and a re-test cadence so it stays true as the estate changes.

Key Benefits

  • A Recovery Time You Can Quote

    A measured figure from a real restore, rather than an estimate nobody has tested.

  • Proof Instead of Assumption

    Green backup jobs are not evidence. A completed restore is.

  • Decisions Made in Advance

    Who declares, who authorises, who communicates — settled before the day it matters, not during it.

  • Evidence for Insurers and Customers

    A tested continuity plan is increasingly something cyber insurers and enterprise customers ask to see.

Tools & Technologies

Business Impact Analysis
The ranking of what matters, costed, agreed with the business rather than with IT alone.
Recovery Runbooks
Step-by-step procedures held somewhere reachable when your systems are not.
Isolated Restore Environment
Where recovery is rehearsed and timed without touching production.
Tabletop Exercise
A facilitated walkthrough of a realistic scenario with the leadership team.

Frequently Asked Questions

We already pay for backup. Why is this separate?+
Backup and Disaster Recovery is the product that keeps the copies. This is the engagement that establishes what you need to recover, in what order and how fast, and then proves it works. The two are designed to go together — the product without the plan is storage, and the plan without the product has nothing to restore from.
Does testing mean taking production down?+
No. Restores are performed into an isolated environment built for the purpose. Production is untouched, which is also what makes it realistic to repeat the test on a cadence.
How long does the engagement take?+
For a typical small or mid-sized organisation the analysis and runbooks take a few weeks, with the restore test and tabletop scheduled after. The re-test is much shorter once the first one has been done.
What happens if the test fails?+
That is the most valuable outcome the engagement can produce. You get a report showing exactly where recovery broke, what it would take to close the gap, and what each option costs — while there is still time to choose.