Essential strategies to keep your business running when the unexpected happens, from backups that actually restore to a plan people have practised.
A continuity plan is only as good as its last test. Many businesses have backups they have never restored and plans nobody has read.
The practical path is short: know what matters most, decide how long you can be without it, and test the recovery of those systems on a schedule.
Most organisations we assess have not agreed how quickly each system must be back. Without that target, backup design is guesswork.
Hardware failure used to drive most recoveries. Today it is ransomware, which also encrypts poorly protected backups.
Teams that run a recovery exercise at least once a year recover in hours. Teams working from an untested document take days.
