Disaster Recovery Assessment & Planning
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's disaster recovery capabilities and recovery readiness through thorough analysis of current DR plans, infrastructure assessment, and recovery objective validation. Our specialized approach combines vulnerability identification with practical recovery solutions to enhance your organization's resilience against cyberattacks, natural disasters, and system failures.
In scope
- Current disaster recovery plan assessment and gap analysis (6 hours)
- Critical systems and infrastructure evaluation (8 hours)
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) analysis (4 hours)
- Backup and restoration process validation (6 hours)
- Data replication and storage assessment (4 hours)
- Recovery site evaluation and capacity planning (6 hours)
- Vendor and third-party recovery dependencies review (4 hours)
- Recovery testing methodology development (3 hours)
- Cost-benefit analysis of DR investments (3 hours)
- Risk assessment against various disaster scenarios (4 hours)
- Recovery prioritization framework development (2 hours)
You receive
- Comprehensive disaster recovery assessment report (15-20 pages)
- Current state vs. desired state analysis
- Recovery objectives recommendations (RPO/RTO)
- Infrastructure resilience evaluation
- Backup and recovery process optimization plan
- Recovery site recommendations and capacity planning
- Vendor dependency analysis and alternatives
- Recovery testing framework and schedule
- DR investment roadmap with cost-benefit analysis
- Risk-based recovery prioritization matrix
- Implementation timeline with milestones
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential DR Assessment
$8,100
Review of one existing DR plan for a single site: up to 15 critical systems, RPO/RTO analysis, backup and restore process check, and up to 5 recovery vendors. 50 consulting hours, 15-20 page report and a prioritized roadmap.
- Sites
- 1
- vendors
- 5
- hours
- 50
- Gap analysis of the current DR plan
- RPO/RTO analysis for up to 15 critical systems
- Backup and restoration process review
- Recovery prioritization matrix
- 15-20 page assessment report with roadmap
- — Recovery testing framework and test schedule
- — Cost-benefit analysis of DR investments
- — Second site or cloud DR evaluation
- — Implementation support after the report
Comprehensive DR Program
$15,400
Complete disaster recovery assessment with detailed testing framework, vendor analysis, cost-benefit evaluation, and implementation support
- Sites
- 3
- vendors
- 15
- — Cloud DR migration planning
- — Design of automated failover or recovery runbooks
- — Facilitating a live recovery test
- — Support beyond the included hours
Enterprise DR Transformation
$27K
Advanced disaster recovery program with multi-site assessment, cloud migration planning, automated recovery solutions, and ongoing optimization support
- — Building or operating the DR environment
- — Hardware, software or cloud hosting costs
- — Business continuity planning for non-IT functions
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
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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