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Your Disaster Recovery Assessment

To determine your organization’s DR readiness, review and rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 4 on the following 9 topics. Your results include important descriptions for your review.

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1. How confident are you that all levels of your DR process are documented and up-to-date?

We have no Documentation, or it's definitely out-of-date

We have minimal documentation but it could be out-of-date

Our Documentation is up-to-date

Our Documentation process ensures automatic updates

None

2. When testing your DR recovery process, how deep do you go?

Retrieve backup data from offsite location

We have selectively tested fail-over and fail-back, and expect that some data loss may occur

Perform an application level DR Test, failing over and failing back some of our machines, without any data loss.

Perform an application level test with automation and scripting

None

3. How often do you practice recovery procedures?

Never

We run the process when needed or when we have time

We do regular DR Testing

We integrated change management processes into our DR testing

None

4. Which IT assets are being protected so that you will have access to them during a crisis?

I don't know

Our managed backup includes critical data and systems

We have verified recovery all of our data and critical functionality based on our RTO

We have verified failover/failback of all system functionality to minimize downtime

None

5. How comprehensive is your DR architecture based on IT industry recommendations?

We have an on-site backup copy of our data

We have two copies of backup, one offsite

Our air-gapped backup DR location can spin up and provide business functionality immediately

Both offsite and online backups replicate fully hydrated VM's to run our production environment. Systems are audited with internal/external Pen tests, and retention policies address potential re-infection in DR environment

None

6. Can you meet your business systems Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)?

We run a daily backup but have no defined RPO

We have a generalized RPO and backup our critical data but it isn't regularly tested

We have a clear RPO and backup all our systems to maintain it

We have a clear RPO, backup all our systems to maintain it, and test regularly

None

7. Can you meet your business systems Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)?

We have no defined RTO, or know how long it may take to restore from backup

We have a generalized RTO but it's not tested

We can recover all our systems within our RTO

Our highly optimized RTO enables full recovery for all our systems

None

8. If a disaster (malicious or natural) rendered your critical systems, database, customer data or network resources unavailable, what would be the cost of that downtime?

High impact on revenue, profit, productivity, clients, and our brand

Medium impact on revenue, profit, productivity, and clients

Low impact on revenue, profit, productivity, and clients

No impact on revenue, profit, and productivity

None

9. How invested is your company's senior management in DR readiness?

Our company believes that IT Disaster Recovery is important but budgeting for it is difficult

Our IT Team does the best it can on limited resources

IT and senior management work closely to ensure our disaster recovery procedures

Our whole company staff know their roles in disaster recovery

None

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