Disaster Recovery
Most DR plans are documents — RTO and RPO targets nobody has tested, runbooks not updated since the last migration, recovery procedures depending on staff who have left. We build DR programs that work: immutable air-gapped backups, documented RTO/RPO per system, validated by quarterly live restore tests.
Overview
AWS, Azure, GCP migrations — without the painful lessons everyone else learned.
The Pressure
Your DR plan is a document until the day you actually need it — and that's the worst time to discover it doesn't work.
- Ransomware now targets backups first — attackers delete or encrypt recovery copies before triggering the payload, so anything not immutable and air-gapped is part of the blast radius.
- Cyber-insurance carriers price renewals on documented, tested recovery capability — immutable backups, defined RTO/RPO per system, and evidence of actual restore tests.
- Regulators expect provable resilience — FFIEC, NYDFS Part 500, and HIPAA contingency-planning requirements all demand recoverability you can demonstrate, not assert.
- Cloud and SaaS sprawl mean data lives across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Microsoft 365 — and the assumption the provider backs it up is wrong more often than not.
- Boards now ask for recovery evidence after high-profile outages — a recovery-time number they can repeat with confidence, not a binder.
The Gap
Most DR programs fail quietly, long before the disaster, because nobody tests them.
- Untested RTO/RPO targets are guesses — numbers nobody has ever validated against the actual restore path under load.
- Stale runbooks haven't been updated since the last migration and assume an environment that no longer exists.
- Tribal knowledge — recovery depends on specific staff who have left, taking the only working mental model of the failover with them.
- Backups that aren't immutable share the same domain and credentials as production, so a single intrusion takes both.
- Vendor-led DR is conflicted — the provider earns margin on the storage and tooling it recommends, not on whether you actually recover.
How We Help
We build DR programs that work because we prove they work — with restores you watch us execute.
- Design immutable, air-gapped backups on a 3-2-1-1-0 architecture engineered to survive ransomware and credential theft.
- Set documented RTO/RPO per system, tiered to business criticality rather than applied as one blanket target.
- Write per-system runbooks your team can actually execute, then validate them with quarterly live restore and failover tests.
- Run tabletop exercises at executive and operational levels to surface gaps before an incident does — across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem estates.
- Produce the cyber-insurance evidence pack carriers accept at renewal — vendor-neutral, because we don't earn margin on your storage spend.
When something fails, you recover inside your stated RTO — with the measured evidence to prove it to your board and your carrier.
Capabilities
What we deliver
DR Strategy
RTO/RPO targets per workload class. Recovery tier definitions matched to business criticality.
Backup Architecture
Immutable, air-gapped, geographically distributed — designed to survive ransomware.
Runbooks
System-by-system recovery procedures. Tested. Updated. Owned by people who can execute them.
Tabletop Exercises
Scenario-based exercises at executive and operational levels. Find gaps before they matter.
Live Failover
Where architecture supports it: actual failover tests with measured outcomes.
Cyber Insurance Evidence
Documentation packages your carrier accepts at renewal.
Recover fast when something fails
Let's talk about your RTO/RPO posture, backup architecture, or DR roadmap.