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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Guide

Resilience is planned, not hoped for. This guide covers the essentials of business continuity and disaster recovery.

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1. Business Impact Analysis

Identify critical activities and how quickly they must recover — setting your RTO (time) and RPO (data-loss) targets.

2. Strategies and plans

  • Choose recovery strategies for people, technology and facilities.
  • Document response, recovery and communication procedures.
  • Ensure backups are offline/immutable and tested.

3. Test and improve

An untested backup or DR plan is a belief, not a control. Exercise recovery regularly.

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