
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?+
Does testing mean taking production down?+
How long does the engagement take?+
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