Disaster recovery that has been tested, not just promised.

Backup is a copy of your data. DR is the plan, architecture, and procedures to use that copy to get your business back online inside an agreed window. Most disasters expose gaps not in the backups themselves but in the recovery process: missing runbooks, misconfigured restore targets, undocumented dependencies. DR addresses all of that.

Depends on the cost of downtime per system. Most mid-market businesses land at 15-min RPO and 1-hour RTO for tier-1 systems (production, customer-facing), 4-hour RPO and 8-hour RTO for tier-2 (internal, reporting), and 24-hour RPO/RTO for tier-3 (archival). We model this with you during the business impact analysis.

Only if your tier-1 RTO is under 15 minutes. For most clients, a cloud-replicated warm DR site (Azure Site Recovery, AWS DR, equivalent) hits 1-hour RTO at a fraction of the cost. Hot sites are for regulated finance, healthcare PHI, and mission-critical e-commerce.

Three layers: immutable backups that cannot be encrypted by the attacker, segmentation between production and DR site, and tested recovery procedures. We run ransomware simulation as part of the annual rehearsal on Professional and Enterprise tiers. Recovery from ransomware is a primary use case, not an edge case.

No. Tabletop exercises run alongside operations. Live failover exercises are scoped to a non-production replica and a short test window with affected stakeholders informed in advance. We have never caused a production outage during a rehearsal.

Day-zero: incident detected, our DR team activates the runbook, you focus on stakeholders. Hour-1: failover initiated, DR site coming online. Hour-4: tier-1 systems running, communication sent to customers. Day-1: full operations restored, forensics begins on root cause. Day-7: post-incident review, runbook updates. We coordinate with insurers, regulators, and law enforcement when required.

Programme documentation aligns to ISO 22301 (business continuity), ISO 27001 A.17 (continuity within ISMS), NESA continuity controls, and NCEMA requirements where applicable. We package the evidence for your auditors. Many clients use the DR programme as their primary continuity control.

Yes. We start with a current-state assessment, a gap report against your declared targets, and a written remediation plan. Most takeovers find gaps in three places: missing runbooks, untested restore paths, and missing immutability on backups. We close them on a fixed timeline.