Disaster Recovery & Risk Mitigation Strategy
Recovery architecture, tested backups and a risk register that drives investment where exposure is real.
Our position
A recovery strategy grounded in quantified risk: threat and exposure assessment, recovery architecture across sites and cloud regions, tested backup integrity and a mitigation plan with named owners.
Findings
The business challenge
Backups are taken but rarely restored. Risk registers list threats without exposure values, so investment goes to whatever was most recently frightening rather than most probable.
- F01Backups unverified by restore testing
- F02Risk register without quantified exposure
- F03Recovery architecture untested across regions or sites
Recommendation
How we solve it
We quantify exposure, design recovery architecture proportionate to it, and prove restore integrity on a scheduled cycle with results reported to the board.
- R01Quantified risk register with named mitigation owners
- R02Multi-site and multi-region recovery architecture
- R03Scheduled restore testing with evidenced results
How the engagement runs
Four decisions, in order
Each stage ends in a written decision your board can sign — no stage begins before the last one closes.
Discover
Threat, exposure and current-state recovery assessment.
Define
Recovery architecture and mitigation priorities agreed.
Deliver
Recovery capability built and restore-tested end to end.
Sustain
Scheduled testing cycle with risk register maintained.
Value to the business
—Recovery position evidenced, not assumed
—Mitigation spend aligned to quantified exposure
—Ransomware and data-loss scenarios explicitly covered
—Board-level reporting on residual risk
Artefacts you keep
Risk & exposure assessment
Recovery architecture
Backup strategy
Restore testing
Risk register
Board reporting pack
Frameworks & tooling
Put the decision on paper
Bring us the question your board keeps deferring. We will scope an advisory engagement with a written recommendation and a date — a consultant replies within one business day.
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