Business continuity and disaster recovery: know that you will get back up
An outage will happen at some point. We help you know in advance what you will do and how long recovery will take, and to have tested it.
Business continuity is not a document in a drawer. It is a plan your team knows and has tested. We start from what your business cannot afford to have stop and work backwards: data, systems, people, communication.
NIS2 includes business continuity, backup management, disaster recovery and crisis management among the Article 21 measures. Solutions such as Veeam and Acronis are available from our portfolio.
- Business Impact Analysis
- Recovery objectives (RTO and RPO) per system
- Backup strategy, including an offline or immutable copy
- Documented disaster recovery plan
- Restore tests and exercises with management and the team
- Communication plan during a crisis
- Regular plan review
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
A backup is the copy of the data. Disaster recovery is the whole plan to restore services: who does what, in what order, in how much time and from which copies. Without a plan and a test, a backup is not a guarantee of recovery.
What are RTO and RPO?
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum time a system can stay down. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum amount of data you can afford to lose, measured in time, for example the last four hours.
Why are restore tests needed?
Because problems are discovered when you try to restore: incomplete copies, missing credentials, times that do not add up. A test before the incident costs less than discovering the problem during one.