Your server dies. Ransomware encrypts everything. There’s a flood, a fire, or your office becomes inaccessible. Could your business keep running?
Most small businesses don’t think about this until it’s too late. We help you plan ahead so that when something goes wrong, you know exactly what to do and how to get back to normal.
Practical planning that matches your business and budget.
Work out what could go wrong, what the impact would be, and how you’d keep operating. A practical plan, not a 100-page document that sits in a drawer.
Design and implement proper backups. Multiple copies, offsite storage, regular testing. Backups that actually work when you need them.
Detailed recovery procedures for your critical systems. Step-by-step instructions so anyone can follow them in an emergency.
What to do in the first hour of an incident. Who to call, what to check, how to contain the damage. Clear procedures for when panic hits.
A plan that’s never tested is just a document. We help you test your backups, run tabletop exercises, and find problems before they find you.
Critical information in one place. System credentials, vendor contacts, recovery procedures. Accessible when your main systems are down.
The foundation of any good backup strategy. Simple, but most businesses don’t follow it.
Your working copy plus two backups. If one fails, you still have options.
Cloud, local, or different physical media. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
At least one backup somewhere else. Fire, flood, or theft won’t take everything.
If you can’t answer these questions confidently, you need a continuity plan.
Straight answers about business continuity and disaster recovery.
Yes. Cloud services like Microsoft 365 protect against their own failures, but they don’t protect you from accidental deletion, malicious deletion by a compromised account, or ransomware that syncs to your cloud storage. You need independent backups of your cloud data too.
It depends on how much data you can afford to lose. If losing a day’s work would be catastrophic, you need daily backups at minimum. Critical systems might need hourly or continuous backup. We’ll help you work out what’s right based on your actual business needs.
Actually restore something. Pick random files and restore them. Better yet, do a full test restore to a separate system. Many businesses discover their backups don’t work when they actually need them. We recommend testing at least quarterly, and documenting the results.
Even a simple plan is better than none. You don’t need a 200-page document. You need to know: what are our critical systems, how do we recover them, who’s responsible, and how do we communicate. A practical, tested plan beats a comprehensive untested one every time.
Backup is copying your data somewhere safe. Disaster recovery is the whole process of getting your business running again after something goes wrong. That includes the backups, but also the procedures, the people, the communication, and the alternative arrangements while you recover.
With good backups and a tested plan, hours to days. Without them, weeks or never. The key is having backups that ransomware can’t reach (offline or immutable), knowing how to restore them, and having procedures everyone understands. We can help you get to that position.
Let’s find out. We’ll review your current resilience, identify the gaps, and help you build a plan that actually works.
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