Business Continuity

BCP covers business operations continuity (who does what, communication, alternative work arrangements). DRP covers technical recovery procedures (how to restore systems, in what order, from what backups). Both are needed.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is maximum acceptable downtime. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is maximum acceptable data loss. For example: RTO 4 hours means the system must be back within 4 hours. RPO 1 hour means you can lose at most 1 hour of data.

Annual full test minimum. We recommend quarterly tabletop exercises (paper walkthroughs) and annual technical tests (actual failover). The service includes the first tabletop exercise.

This service creates the plan. Implementation of hot standby, replication, and failover infrastructure is separate engineering work. We can provide an implementation quote based on the DRP.

Data center failure, ransomware attack, DDoS attack, key personnel unavailability, cloud provider outage, internet connectivity loss, data corruption. We customize to your specific risk profile.