Backup & Disaster Recovery
Most backup strategies pass inspection until you need them — then you discover the immutability wasn't really immutable, the air gap had a path through it, and the runbook references a system decommissioned eighteen months ago. We run backup-and-DR continuously: monthly restore tests with written proof, immutable air-gapped architecture, RTO and RPO documented per system.
Overview
Backups that actually restore — proven monthly, certified annually.
The Pressure
Attackers go after your backups first — and regulators now expect you to prove you can actually recover.
- Backups are the target — ransomware crews delete or encrypt Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, and Cohesity repositories as a first move, before they touch primary data.
- Carriers demand proof — cyber-insurance questionnaires now require demonstrable proof of recovery, not a signed attestation, at renewal.
- Board-level expectations reset — the Change Healthcare incident raised resilience scrutiny across healthcare, and recent hospitality incidents did the same for that sector.
- Regulation is prescriptive — NIS2 and SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure rules require demonstrable recovery capability, and the proposed HIPAA Security Rule update brings 72-hour incident response and backup-immutability expectations.
- The threat is evolving — AI-encryption-aware ransomware variants now target backup metadata and catalog data as deliberately as they target the primary workload.
The Gap
The backups exist; the recovery doesn't — and you find out at the worst possible moment.
- Immutability that isn't — the air gap has a path through it, the write-lock has an admin override, and nobody validated it against a real attack.
- Recovery measured in days — restore times stretch into days instead of hours, and the runbook references a system decommissioned eighteen months ago.
- Generic IT can't run the test — the test plan, evidence requirements, and recovery sequencing a carrier expects are different from the operational backup verification most teams do.
- Vendor incentives are misaligned — vendor-led backup offerings often optimize for storage utilization rather than recoverability.
- Resilience claims unproven — ransomware-resilience marketing frequently does not survive a real-world attack on the specific platform in production.
How We Help
We operate backup-and-DR as a continuous service, measured against real restores — not promises.
- Tested restores — scheduled monthly restore tests with written proof, plus full DR failover exercises validated against the active ransomware playbook.
- Immutable, air-gapped architecture — write-locked and retention-locked storage, validated quarterly rather than assumed.
- Documented RTO and RPO per system — measured, not aspirational, with runbook maintenance versioned at each environment change.
- Multi-platform operations — Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Cohesity, and native AWS, Azure, and GCP snapshots under one standard.
- Carrier-ready evidence — proof-of-recovery packs your cyber-insurance carrier can certify against, plus tabletop exercises that pressure-test executive and operational response.
When ransomware or disaster hits, you recover inside your SLA — with evidence your carrier, board, and regulators accept. We pair with our Disaster Recovery consulting practice for program design, our SOC for ransomware detection, and our Incident Response and Breach Retainer when recovery happens in anger.
Capabilities
What we deliver
Backup Operations
Schedule management, retention compliance, capacity planning, alert response.
Immutable Storage
Air-gapped, write-locked, retention-locked storage operated to a documented standard.
Replication & Off-Site
Cross-region replication, off-site copy management, vaulting where appropriate.
Restore Testing
Sample restores quarterly. Full DR tests annually. Documented results.
Runbook Maintenance
Per-system runbooks reviewed and updated as systems change.
Compliance Reporting
Audit-ready evidence for cyber insurance carriers, regulators, board.
Survive ransomware. Survive disasters.
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