Could you create an effective business continuity plan?
Increasingly, businesses are implementing business continuity plans to minimize downtime during a catastrophe caused by human error, network failure, or cyber-attack. We support businesses and work with them to ensure there is always a contingency plan in place. We will ensure your business can function continuously in the event of data loss or a security breach through our services. If something happens to your system or data, you must be ready to deal with the problem and move forward. Failure to have an effective business continuity plan will cost you valuable time and money.
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The four numbers a continuity plan lives or dies by
Before we design anything, we agree these with you in writing. Everything else follows from them.
Recovery point objective
How much work you can afford to lose, measured in time. An hourly backup means you lose at most an hour of it. That number sets how often we take copies and what it costs.
Recovery time objective
How long you can be down before the loss becomes serious. A four-hour target and a next-day target are different systems at different prices, and the honest answer is usually different per system.
Tested restores
A backup nobody has restored from is a hope, not a backup. We restore from yours on a schedule and show you the result, rather than sending you a report saying the job succeeded.
A runbook people can follow
Who declares an incident, who calls the insurer, where the offline copy of the plan lives. Written for the person on shift at 3am, not for the person who wrote it.
Questions we get asked
01What is the difference between backup and business continuity?
A backup is a copy of your data. Continuity is the whole answer to “how does the business keep operating” — which systems come back first, how long that takes, who does what, and what you do in the meantime.
Plenty of businesses have backups and no continuity plan. They find out on the day.
02How often should a plan be tested?
Often enough that the first real test is not the emergency. We restore from your backups on a schedule and report the result, and we rehearse the wider plan with you periodically.
03Do we need copies offsite if we are already in the cloud?
Yes. Cloud platforms protect against hardware failure, not against deletion, ransomware or an account compromise. A separate copy under separate control is what makes those survivable.
04How much data could we lose in the worst case?
Exactly as much as the gap between backups — that is what a recovery point objective means, and we agree it with you in writing before designing anything.