Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) are essential aspects of organizational resilience, ensuring that businesses can continue operating during and after disruptive events. An effective BCDR strategy will help you minimize downtime, protect your revenue and reputation, meet regulatory requirements, enhance competitive advantage, and support customer confidence.
With {shortcode} years on the market, N-iX has the expertise to develop an effective BCDR strategy tailored to your specific needs. We have successfully delivered over 100 cybersecurity and business continuity projects across various industries, including finance, manufacturing, retail, telecom, and more. N-iX is well-prepared to help you preserve your business and protect it from disaster scenarios.
Evaluate your existing infrastructure, systems, processes, and practices to clearly understand your IT landscape, including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Identify and analyze key business processes and dependencies on IT services to quantify the financial, operational, and reputational consequences of service disruptions, such as downtime, data loss, or system failures.
Analyze potential threats to determine their likelihood, severity, and potential impact on your ability to deliver products or services.
Assess the technological infrastructure and systems that support your operations to acquire a comprehensive understanding of your IT environment, including hardware, software, networks, and data storage.
Analyze dependencies on personnel, technology, infrastructure, etc., to determine the impact of disruptions to these functions on overall business operations.
Identify and mitigate components, systems, or processes that, if disrupted, could significantly impact your ability to operate effectively.
Identify the key data and configurations that require backup to ensure successful recovery during disaster scenarios.
Acquire a clear and comprehensive step-by-step roadmap that ensures the success of your Business Continuity strategy.
N-iX will help implement your business continuity plan without causing service interruptions or extra expenses. We also make sure that clear and consistent documentation is maintained at all times.
Make sure that your business is prepared to withstand and recover from any
potential crisis. N-iX, together with your senior management and team leaders,
can conduct a wide range of mock exercises to test, refine, support, and improve your business
continuity and disaster recovery strategy.
Test machine recoveries, as well as file-level restores to verify the viability of your backups, making sure they can be easily restored during real-world scenarios.
Run different types of tests on your backup chain, such as cloud backup recovery, backup virtualization, backup image export, and more.
Incorporate automatic validation of your backup systems to verify that there are no issues that can hinder recovery.
Bolster your cybersecurity with security audits, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and social engineering tests to protect your business from minor threats and full-blown cyberattacks.
Evaluate processes aimed at handling hardware failure, such as how you can determine whether the hardware can be salvaged, how quickly you can deploy it in case replacement is required, and what steps you can take to make the process faster.
Test your preparedness for unexpected network traffic surges or network attacks, the readiness of your IT teams to respond to issues quickly, and your overall network health.
Establish effective practices that help your recovery teams quickly respond to utility outages, such as outage localization, power backup inspection, critical service, and personal prioritization, etc.
Perform routine evaluations of how prepared you are for interruptions in the workforce by testing IT systems and solutions that enable remote work, as well as your ability to relocate operations and maintain critical operations.
Leverage cloud technologies to build and test highly available and fault-tolerant ecosystems that extend the backup and recovery capabilities of the on-premise infrastructure.
The main goal of business continuity is to bolster the essential company operations in crisis and/or disaster scenarios. Through meticulous planning, a company can sustain operations even with constrained resources or limited access to physical premises. Additionally, business continuity planning helps mitigate potential revenue and reputational setbacks.
