Disaster Recovery Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's disaster recovery capabilities, testing recovery procedures, and ensuring business continuity in the event of catastrophic incidents or outages.
In scope
- Recovery plan assessment
- Backup system evaluation
- RTO/RPO validation
- DR testing procedures
- Technical recovery capabilities
- Crisis communication review
- DR documentation analysis
You receive
- Detailed DR capability report
- Gap analysis and recommendations
- Recovery test results
- Updated DR documentation
- Recovery improvement roadmap
- Critical system recovery procedures
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core DR Assessment
$35K
Up to 250 employees and 1 primary site. DR plan, backup configuration and RTO/RPO targets reviewed for up to 10 critical systems, with one witnessed backup restore test. DR capability report, gap analysis and improvement roadmap.
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 1
- DR plan and documentation analysis
- Backup system evaluation
- RTO/RPO validation for up to 10 critical systems
- One witnessed backup restore test
- Gap analysis and recovery improvement roadmap
- — Tabletop exercises
- — Recovery testing beyond one restore
- — Rewriting DR documentation
- — Failover validation
Standard DR Program
$60K
Up to 1,000 employees and up to 3 sites, up to 25 critical systems. Adds 2 facilitated DR tabletop scenarios, recovery tests of up to 3 systems measured against RTO/RPO, crisis communication review, and updated DR documentation and recovery procedures.
- employees
- 1000
- Sites
- 3
- Objectives
- 2
- Everything in the core assessment
- 2 facilitated DR tabletop scenarios
- Recovery tests of up to 3 systems with measured results
- Crisis communication review
- Updated DR documentation and critical system recovery procedures
- — Live failover of production
- — Automated failover validation
- — Crisis management program development
- — Remediation of backup or DR infrastructure
Enterprise DR Solution
$95K
Up to 2,500 employees and up to 10 sites, up to 50 critical systems. Adds live recovery testing of up to 5 systems including a planned failover to the recovery site, automated failover validation, 3 tabletop scenarios and a crisis management exercise with executives.
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 10
- Objectives
- 3
- Everything in the standard tier
- Live recovery test of up to 5 systems with planned failover
- Automated failover validation
- 3 tabletop scenarios including an executive crisis exercise
- Recovery test results report against RTO/RPO
- — Building or buying DR infrastructure
- — Business-side continuity planning (see Business Continuity Assessment)
- — Ongoing DR test program management
- — Organizations above 2,500 employees (scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a incident response readiness engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Current-state review
Plans, playbooks, contacts, logging and insurance requirements reviewed.
You see · Your IR plan and insurance policy.
02Scenario design
Scenarios chosen for your threat profile: ransomware, BEC, insider, cloud compromise.
You see · Participant list and scenario sign-off.
03Exercise / readiness work
Tabletop facilitation or readiness build-out, depending on the service.
You see · Your team's time in the room.
04After-action report
Gaps found, decisions that stalled, and an improvement plan with owners.
You see · A report your board and insurer can read.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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