Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery turns a documented RTO into a tested one. Recovery designed across cloud and on-premise, runbooks authored, failover proven live, so recovery is something you've done, not something you hope works.
Most BC and DR programs are documents. Critical processes named, RTOs set, recovery sites listed, then filed until the next audit. The first real test is the day production goes down, and the gaps surface in the order that hurts most: data older than the RPO, apps outside the runbook, dependencies nobody mapped. The recovery time on paper is not the one the business gets.
The work is making recovery testable and tested. Impact analysis built on real operational dependencies, recovery designed across cloud and on-premise, runbooks rehearsed with the people who'd actually run them, and live failover on a cadence auditors expect. The RTO you commit to is the RTO you've measured.
Restores that come back older than the RPO the business signed off on.
Applications outside the runbook that turn out to be in the critical path.
Upstream and vendor dependencies nobody mapped before the outage.
A recovery time on paper is not the one measured under a live cutover.
Customer contracts, internal SLAs, and regulatory expectations have specific RTO and RPO numbers attached. The plan documents them. The technical reality has not been validated, and the gap between commitment and capability is widening.
Something hit. Operations went down. The recovery worked in pieces and took longer than the documented RTO. The post-incident review surfaces gaps the program never tested. The board wants a credible recovery posture before the next event.
DORA, FFIEC operational resilience guidance, NYDFS Part 500 amendments, state insurance regulators. The bar on operational resilience has risen, and the program needs to clear a higher standard with documented evidence.
Critical processes named by the business owners, with actual operational dependencies, disruption tolerance, and impact curves documented. The BIA reflects how the business actually runs.
Recovery objectives tied to the BIA, validated against the technical capability, and tested under realistic conditions. Where the commitment exceeds capability, the gap is documented and closed.
Replication strategies, failover mechanics, alternate-site arrangements, SaaS dependencies, and third-party recovery commitments mapped end-to-end. The design works as a system, not as a collection of application recoveries.
Step-by-step recovery procedures, written for the operators who would run them at 3 a.m. under pressure. Versioned, rehearsed, and refreshed against infrastructure changes.
Tabletops with the business, technical drills, partial failovers, and full failover tests scheduled to the standard your regulators and auditors expect. After-action reports drive specific program changes.
Quarterly review with the business, technical, and compliance leads. Recovery posture, test results, change impact, and regulatory horizon on the agenda. The program stays current between major drills.
Test results, exercise reports, BIA refreshes, governance minutes, and change records mapped to ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, DORA, and the sector-specific operational resilience rules reaching your environment.
The program operates after we step back. Annual BIA refresh, quarterly governance, scheduled testing cadence. Your team or our Managed Security Services runs the cadence with the same playbook.
Business impact analysis run with the business owners. Critical processes named, dependencies mapped, disruption tolerance measured. RTO and RPO targets validated against capability. Gaps between commitment and capability documented.
Recovery architecture designed across cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and SaaS dependencies. Replication strategy, failover mechanics, alternate-site arrangements, and manual workarounds documented as a system. Third-party dependencies mapped and contracted.
Tabletop exercises with the business. Technical drills on the application stack. Partial failovers on cadence. Full failover testing scheduled to the standard your regulators and auditors expect. After-action reports drive specific program changes.
Annual BIA refresh. Quarterly governance forum. Change management wired into the program so the plan tracks production. New applications, new vendors, and new business lines absorbed into the program as they land.
Critical process identification with business owners, operational dependency mapping, disruption tolerance measurement, and the discipline that keeps the BIA reflecting how the business actually runs.
See expertiseRecovery design across cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and SaaS dependencies. Replication strategies, failover mechanics, alternate-site arrangements, and manual workarounds documented as a single system.
See expertiseTabletop design for executive and business participation, technical drill scoping, partial and full failover testing, and the after-action discipline that turns tests into specific program improvements.
See expertiseAlignment to ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, DORA, FFIEC operational resilience guidance, NYDFS Part 500, and the sector-specific resilience standards reaching your environment.
See expertiseBring the current BC and DR plan, the RTOs and RPOs you have committed to, and the regulatory standard reaching your environment. We will tell you what testing would actually validate.