The question your CEO will eventually ask: "If we lost everything today — how long to recover?"
Most IT managers know the honest answer is not reassuring. Backups exist in theory. Restores have never been tested. A ransomware attack or a careless DELETE query is a crisis waiting to happen — and the only thing standing between incident and catastrophe is whether your recovery plan actually works.
- Automated backups that actually get tested
- Off-site encrypted storage — not just the host snapshot
- A recovery plan with real RTOs you can defend
30-minute, no-pressure consultation — typically a reply within 24 hours.
You have "backups". Have you ever actually tested one?
Most growing companies have some form of backup in place. Far fewer have ever verified that those backups restore cleanly — until the moment they desperately need them to.
Your backups run. Nobody has ever tested a restore.
The host runs daily snapshots and you assumed that was enough. But the last time someone tried to restore from one was never — and "assuming it works" is not a business continuity strategy. The backup fails at the worst possible moment, quietly and without warning.
A ransomware attack would encrypt your backups too
Ransomware does not just encrypt your active files — modern strains specifically target backup folders and connected storage. If your backups live on the same network as your primary data, they get locked at the same time. Off-site, air-gapped copies are the only real protection.
No formal data inventory, no retention policy, no recovery time target
You know roughly where your data lives — the CRM, the database, a few shared drives. But there is no formal record of what exists, how critical each dataset is, how long it needs to be kept, or how quickly each system needs to be back online. That is the gap that turns incidents into crises.
Backup and recovery built to survive the worst-case scenario
Not just a backup utility — a complete data resilience posture that you can explain to your CTO, your auditors, and your board.
Automated, redundant, tested backups
Scheduled backups of databases, files, and critical systems running on a 3-2-1 strategy: three copies, two media types, one off-site. Automated restore tests so you have documented evidence that recovery actually works.
Encrypted off-site storage
AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, stored in a separate cloud environment from your primary infrastructure — so a breach, ransomware attack, or host failure cannot reach your recovery data.
Data inventory and retention policy
A formal register of what data you hold, where it lives, how critical it is, and how long it needs to be kept — both for operational recovery and for GDPR and UAE PDPL compliance requirements.
Recovery time and recovery point objectives
Defined RTO and RPO targets per system — not a generic "we will recover as fast as possible" but specific, documented commitments: this system back online in 4 hours, this data recovered to no more than 1 hour old.
Access controls and least-privilege review
Audit of who can reach sensitive data, with a tightened access model so the damage radius of a breach, insider threat, or accidental deletion is limited to the minimum required.
Backup monitoring and failure alerting
Real-time monitoring so a failed backup job triggers an alert within minutes — not days later when you check manually, or never, which is what happens now.
From "I think we have backups" to documented, tested, defensible recovery
A structured engagement that ends with a recovery posture you can explain confidently to anyone who asks.
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Inventory
We map your critical data: what it is, where it lives, how sensitive it is, and what the cost of losing it would be. This becomes your data register — the foundation of both recovery planning and compliance.
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Assess
We evaluate your current backup configuration against your actual risk: frequency, retention, off-site separation, encryption, and most importantly, whether restores work. We document what is missing.
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Implement
We configure the full backup architecture — automated, redundant, encrypted, off-site — and run the first restore test before we hand anything over. If it does not restore cleanly, it is not done.
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Document and review
You get a recovery plan with defined RTOs, a restore testing schedule, and monitoring alerts in place. We run a quarterly restore test as part of ongoing management — so the evidence of working backups is always fresh.
From "I hope so" to "yes, and here is the evidence"
The goal is not just having backups — it is being able to answer the hard questions with confidence.
- RTO target for critical systems with tested recovery plan
- <4 hrsRTO target for critical systems with tested recovery plan
- Restore test cadence — not just "set and forget"
- MonthlyRestore test cadence — not just "set and forget"
- Backup strategy: 3 copies, 2 media, 1 off-site
- 3-2-1Backup strategy: 3 copies, 2 media, 1 off-site
- Retention and storage aligned with PDPL requirements
- GDPR + UAERetention and storage aligned with PDPL requirements
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before we talk.
Get an honest answer about how protected your data actually is
Book a free data resilience call. We will review your current backup configuration and tell you exactly where the gaps are and what it would take to close them.