Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
The difference between a bad day and a business-ending event is usually whether there was a plan. Business continuity and disaster recovery planning exist to make sure that when something goes wrong — a ransomware incident, a hardware failure, a natural disaster — your business knows exactly what happens next.
WHY HAVE A BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND/OR A DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN?
Most businesses can describe, in general terms, what they'd do if a major system went down. Far fewer have actually written it down, tested it, and confirmed that the people responsible for executing it know their role. That gap — between "we'd figure it out" and "we have a plan" — is exactly where prolonged downtime, lost data, and missed recovery windows come from.
Business continuity and disaster recovery aren't the same thing, and treating them as one project usually means neither gets done well. Continuity planning is about how the business keeps functioning during a disruption. Disaster recovery is about how your systems and data actually get restored. Both matter; they answer different questions.
HOW WE HELP
BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING (BCP)
We work with you to document how your business continues operating during a disruption — critical functions, backup processes, communication plans, and the decision tree for who does what when something goes wrong. This becomes a living document your team can actually use, not a binder that sits on a shelf.
DISASTER RECOVERY (DR) PLANNING
We assess your current backup and recovery posture, identify gaps between what you think is recoverable and what actually is, and build a recovery plan scoped to your specific systems, recovery time objectives, and recovery point objectives.
TESTING AND VALIDATION
A plan that's never been tested is a guess. Where appropriate, we help validate that your continuity and recovery plans actually work before you need them to.
PLAN MAINTENANCE
Business continuity and disaster recovery plans go stale as your systems and team change. We can structure ongoing review so the plan keeps matching the business it's protecting.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Businesses that have never formally documented a continuity or recovery plan, organizations that have a plan but haven't revisited it since it was written, businesses in regulated industries where continuity planning is an expectation rather than a nice-to-have, and anyone who has already had a close call and doesn't want the next one to be worse.
ENGAGEMENT MODEL
Business Continuity Planning starts at a published baseline rate for a standard engagement, scoped up depending on organizational complexity. Disaster Recovery Planning is quoted individually based on your systems, data volume, and recovery requirements.