Create a recovery plan based on what your organisation needs to keep operating. Strata Digital helps you connect business priorities, IT dependencies, backup arrangements and decision-making into a plan that can be exercised and improved.
A list of backup jobs is not the same as a recovery plan. If a key system is unavailable, the organisation needs to know which services come first, who can authorise action and what people should do while restoration is under way. Those decisions involve business owners as well as IT.
We help you identify the important activities and the systems behind them, then turn that understanding into a documented response. The work can include recovery priorities, contact routes, restoration dependencies and exercises. The resulting plan is kept proportionate to the organisation and the services within scope.
Discuss the effect of losing important systems and information with their owners. Define tolerable interruption and data loss as business requirements, then compare those expectations with the capability of the current recovery arrangements.
Identify the access, network, application and supplier dependencies needed to bring services back. A useful sequence shows which foundations must be available before a business application can operate again.
Document who makes decisions, who carries out the work and who keeps staff informed. Ensure contact and access information can be reached during the kind of disruption the plan is intended to address.
Use proportionate exercises to test assumptions, decision-making and selected technical recovery steps. Record the gaps, assign owners and update the plan, so testing produces practical improvements rather than a report that goes unused.
Identify critical activities, information and acceptable interruption. Agree the scenarios and systems that the initial planning work will cover.
Document recovery steps, dependencies, authority and communication. Compare the required outcomes with available backup and infrastructure capabilities.
Run the agreed checks or scenarios and follow up findings. Revisit the plan when applications, locations, suppliers or business priorities change.
Your proposal sets out the systems, deliverables, responsibilities and service arrangements included. We agree these before work begins.
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Talk to usIT disaster recovery concerns restoring technology and information. Business continuity also considers how people and processes keep operating during disruption. We connect the IT recovery work with your wider business arrangements and responsibilities.
A recovery target needs to be based on the systems, protection and resources in scope. We help you define appropriate targets and test relevant assumptions; the agreement should state the capabilities and limitations that apply.
The approach can be proportionate to your organisation. A focused review of critical services, responsibilities and a practical exercise may be the right starting point, with further work prioritised from the findings.
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Explore the related help sheetExplore how support, protection and ongoing improvements can form part of one coordinated plan for your business.
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