Plan for the day something goes wrong, before it does.
Hardware fails, ransomware gets through, buildings lose power, people make mistakes. None of that is unusual — what varies is whether an organisation can actually recover when it happens. We design backup strategies, disaster recovery plans and business continuity plans that are built around your real risk tolerance and budget, and tested so you know they work before you need them.
Most organisations don't find out their plan doesn't work until they need it.
These are the situations that usually bring a backup, DR or continuity conversation forward.
No tested backup or recovery plan
Backups run on a schedule, but nobody has ever mapped out — or tried — what a real recovery would actually involve.
Backups that have never been tested
Restores are assumed to work because nobody has actually verified them against a real failure scenario.
No plan for losing the primary site
Power, fire, flooding or building access issues would leave the organisation with nowhere pre-arranged to run from.
Exposure to ransomware and data loss
Backups sit on the same network as production systems, which means an attack that reaches one can reach both.
A continuity plan that's out of date
Written years ago, for systems, staff and vendors that have since changed — and nobody has revisited it since.
Unclear recovery priorities
If several systems failed at once, nobody in the organisation agrees on what gets restored first and what can wait.
Backup, recovery and continuity, as one connected discipline.
Backup Strategy & Architecture
- Backup design across servers, applications and endpoints
- On-site and off-site / cloud replication
- Retention policy aligned to business and regulatory needs
- Immutable and air-gapped copies for ransomware resilience
Disaster Recovery Planning
- DR site and infrastructure planning
- Replication between primary and recovery environments
- Documented failover and recovery runbooks
- Recovery sequencing across interdependent systems
Business Continuity Planning
- Identification of critical systems and business processes
- Dependency mapping across people, systems and vendors
- Communication plans for use during a disruption
- Clear roles and responsibilities before, during and after an event
Recovery & Continuity Testing
- Scheduled restore testing from backup
- DR failover exercises and drills
- Tabletop continuity exercises with key staff
- Findings reporting and plan updates after every test
Ransomware & Data-Loss Resilience
- Backup isolation from production network paths
- Immutable and versioned backup copies
- Rapid-restore procedures for common failure and attack scenarios
- Coordination with our cybersecurity services on prevention and detection
How a typical engagement runs.
Assess
We review current backups, systems, data criticality and dependencies to understand what actually needs protecting and how ready it is today.
Design
We calibrate recovery objectives per system to your real risk tolerance and budget, then design the backup, DR and continuity approach around them.
Implement
We deploy backup infrastructure and replication, stand up the DR environment, and document the runbooks and continuity plan that go with it.
Test & Review
Restore tests and DR exercises confirm the plan holds up in practice. Plans are revisited and re-tested on a regular cadence — not filed away and forgotten.
What this work is actually for.
Confidence a real recovery plan exists
Not just backups running in the background, but a documented plan that people know how to execute under pressure.
Recovery priorities calibrated to your reality
What comes back first, and how fast, is set against your actual risk and budget — not a generic template.
Tested resilience, not assumed resilience
Restore and failover capability is verified through regular exercises, so it isn't discovered to be broken during a real event.
A single accountable team
One point of contact for backup, DR and continuity, instead of ownership scattered across different tools and vendors.
Recovery depends on what it's protecting.
Common questions about backup, DR and continuity planning.
What's the difference between backup, disaster recovery and business continuity?
Can you guarantee a specific recovery time if something fails?
How often should backups and DR plans actually be tested?
Do you handle recovery specifically from ransomware?
We already have backups — why do we need a DR or continuity plan too?
Not sure your backups would actually get you back up?
A short conversation with a solutions expert is often enough to identify the biggest gap in your current recovery plan.