- Security & Compliance
Disaster Recovery & Backups
Disaster Recovery (DR) is a prepared and tested way to restore your IT systems within an agreed time after a failure, a ransomware attack or the loss of a data centre. We design ransomware-resistant backups and a recovery plan with automated failover to the cloud, and we test it regularly. For a manufacturing client, critical systems were back online within 4 hours of the attack.
Executive Summary: A backup is not enough if you cannot restore your systems from it quickly. In 89% of ransomware attacks, criminals tried to reach backup repositories (Veeam, Ransomware Trends Report 2025). That is why we build isolated, immutable backups and a DR plan that we verify in controlled tests. We start with a business impact analysis that sets RTO and RPO targets for every critical system. Test results give your board and auditors hard evidence.
Don’t Ask if Your Company Will Survive a Ransomware Attack
The average downtime after a ransomware attack is 24 days. An hour of downtime for a large enterprise costs an average of one million dollars. 70% of small businesses cease operations within 6 months of a major attack. We design and implement backup and Disaster Recovery strategies that ensure your business survives any scenario.
Challenges in Ensuring Business Continuity
Most companies believe they are prepared. Data shows otherwise.
You have backups, but do you know you can restore from them?
Many companies take backups but rarely check whether systems can actually be restored from them. A damaged or incomplete backup usually comes to light only on the day of the failure, when there is no time left to fix it.
Ransomware Encrypts Data and Local Copies Simultaneously
Ransomware increasingly targets backups as well as production data. In 89% of attacks, criminals tried to reach backup repositories (Veeam, Ransomware Trends Report 2025). Without an isolated, immutable copy, the choice comes down to paying the ransom or rebuilding the environment from scratch.
Your DR Plan Has Never Been Tested
A plan that has never been tested in practice is a document, not a safeguard. Only a test shows whether the target recovery time (RTO) is realistic, whether the team knows the procedures and whether dependencies between systems have been covered.
NIS2 and DORA require documented business continuity
The NIS2 Directive (Article 21(2)(c)) requires backup management, disaster recovery and business continuity. The DORA Regulation (Article 11) requires financial entities to test their business continuity and recovery plans at least once a year. Without such plans, the risk is both operational and regulatory.
See How It Works in Practice
Client:
A manufacturing company.
Challenge:
The company was hit by a ransomware attack that encrypted its entire production infrastructure and local backups. Operations came to a complete standstill.
Solution:
We implemented a Disaster Recovery strategy in AWS with isolated, immutable backups and automated recovery using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
Results:
Critical systems restored within 4 hours of the failure.
Data loss limited to just 15 minutes.
Business continuity procedures documented in line with NIS2 requirements.
Is your business ready for a scenario like this?
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From backups to a tested recovery plan
Most companies have backups. Few have a tested plan to restore their entire infrastructure within hours. That is what we do: from risk analysis, through technology implementation, to regular tests that confirm the plan works.
Ready for failures, attacks and data centre outages
We build your company’s ability to get back to work quickly after a failure, a ransomware attack or the loss of a data centre. We combine technology, procedures and testing, because technology without a proven plan does not shorten downtime.
Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment
We identify critical processes and systems, assess the impact of their unavailability and set realistic targets: RTO (maximum acceptable downtime) and RPO (maximum acceptable data loss). These values drive both the architecture and the cost of the solution.
Backup Strategy Design and Implementation
We implement an automated backup system that follows the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different media, with one kept off-site. The cloud copy is isolated and immutable, so ransomware cannot encrypt or delete it.
Disaster Recovery Plan Design and Implementation
We create a detailed disaster recovery plan with automated failover to a standby cloud location. Instead of hours of manual recovery, systems start up in an agreed order.
Regular DR Plan Testing
We conduct full, controlled tests of your plan. The results provide evidence for auditors, management, and regulators. A plan without testing is just theory.
Post-disaster Recovery Support
In the event of a real disaster, our team coordinates the entire recovery process. You are not alone.
Your Path to Full Resilience
We deliver every implementation in four stages, so you know what to expect.
1.
Workshops and Business Analysis
We define key processes, systems, and establish RTO and RPO objectives tailored to your business.
2.
Architecture Design
We design a backup and Disaster Recovery strategy tailored to your environment, your RTO and RPO targets and your budget.
3.
Implementation and Configuration
Our engineers deploy the tools and configure replication and automation.
4.
Testing, Documentation, and Training
We run the first full test, prepare the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) documentation and train your team. We also agree a schedule for future tests.
Frequently Asked Questions
A backup is a copy of your data. Disaster Recovery is the plan and technology that let you restore your entire IT infrastructure, including servers, network and applications, in a standby location. A backup protects data, while DR shortens downtime for the whole business.
Only if they are properly secured. In 89% of ransomware attacks, criminals tried to reach backup repositories (Veeam, Ransomware Trends Report 2025). That is why you need an isolated, immutable copy that attackers cannot access.
At least once a year and after every significant change to your infrastructure. The DORA Regulation (Article 11) requires financial entities to test their business continuity and recovery plans at least once a year. We recommend the same frequency to companies outside the financial sector.
It depends on system criticality and budget. We set the targets together in the business impact analysis and verify them in a test. For a manufacturing client, critical systems were back within 4 hours and data loss was limited to 15 minutes.
Yes. The NIS2 Directive (Article 21(2)(c)) requires backup management, disaster recovery and business continuity. The DORA Regulation (Articles 11 and 12) requires recovery plans, backup policies and annual testing. Our tests end with audit-ready documentation.
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum time within which a system must be back up after a failure. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum amount of data, measured in time, that the business can afford to lose. An RPO of 15 minutes means that after a failure, at most the last 15 minutes of data are missing.
The 3-2-1 rule is a backup principle: three copies of your data, on two different media, with one kept off-site. Today it is usually extended with an immutable or isolated copy that cannot be encrypted or deleted during an attack.
