Technology Resilience Score™

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Your business needs to know it can recover — not hope it can.

Technology failures do not need to become business failures.

Ransomware, outages and unexpected disruption are now part of the operating reality for most organisations. The difference is not whether something goes wrong — it is whether the business can keep operating and recover quickly when it does.

Without tested recovery, a disruption can halt operations, delay delivery, impact revenue and damage customer trust.

The Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery domain of the Technology Resilience Score looks at whether your organisation can continue operating through disruption and recover systems, data and access within an acceptable timeframe.

If critical systems went down today, could your business keep going — and how quickly could you recover?

What does Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery measure?

This domain assesses whether your organisation is prepared to continue operating during disruption and recover quickly afterwards. Typical areas reviewed include:

• →whether all important systems and data are properly backed up
• →whether backups are tested and proven to work
• →whether there is a documented and tested recovery plan
• →whether the business can continue operating if systems or locations become unavailable
• →backup coverage across systems, platforms and data
• →backup frequency, storage location and immutability
• →whether restore testing is carried out and recorded
• →disaster recovery planning and recovery time objectives
• →business continuity planning for operational disruption
• →dependency on key systems and platforms
• →whether recovery procedures are documented and repeatable

This domain is not about having backups in place. It is about knowing, with evidence, that recovery will work when it matters.

Why this matters to business owners and operators

Most organisations assume they could recover from a major incident. Very few have tested that assumption. Untested backups, undocumented recovery processes and unclear responsibilities create hidden risk. For business owners, downtime is not just an IT issue. It affects:

• →revenue and billing
• →customer commitments and delivery
• →contractual obligations
• →regulatory and compliance exposure
• →team productivity
• →reputation and trust

What weak continuity and recovery looks like

• ✗backups exist but have never been tested
• ✗backup coverage is incomplete or inconsistent
• ✗backups are stored in a location that ransomware could affect
• ✗there is no documented disaster recovery plan
• ✗recovery steps depend on individual knowledge rather than process
• ✗recovery time expectations are unclear or unrealistic
• ✗the business has no clear plan to operate during system outages
• ✗systems and platforms are critical, but their recovery has not been validated

This creates a fragile operating model. The business may continue to function day-to-day, but it is exposed to a single event that could halt operations.

What strong continuity and recovery looks like

A resilient organisation has tested, proven recovery.

Backups run automatically, are stored securely offsite and cannot be altered or encrypted. Restore testing is carried out regularly and recorded. Recovery procedures are documented, understood and exercised.

A clear disaster recovery plan defines how systems are restored and how long recovery will take. A business continuity plan ensures critical operations continue while recovery takes place.

In a strong environment, recovery is not guessed. It is known, measured and repeatable.

How this affects your Technology Resilience Score

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery is one of the 10 domains assessed as part of the Technology Resilience Score. A weak score in this domain usually indicates that recovery is assumed rather than proven. Improving this domain helps the organisation move towards a stronger overall score by creating:

Improving this domain helps by creating:

• ✓proven recoverability
• ✓reduced operational risk
• ✓clearer recovery expectations
• ✓greater confidence in systems and platforms
• ✓stronger protection against downtime events

Improving this domain is often one of the fastest ways to reduce the most severe business risk.

How LBT Resilience improves Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

LBT Resilience starts with a Technology Resilience Assessment. We assess your organisation across all 10 domains, including Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, and give you a clear score out of 5.

We then verify your recovery capability. That means checking backup coverage, validating restore processes and reviewing how your business would actually respond to disruption.

From there, we create a practical improvement plan focused on turning recovery from an assumption into a proven capability — including backup design, immutability, restore testing and recovery planning.

Because support and security are included as part of LBT Resilience, recovery is not treated as a one-off project. It becomes part of an ongoing, measurable improvement process.

Find out how resilient your recovery really is

Most organisations believe they could recover from disruption. Very few have evidence that they can. The Technology Resilience Assessment gives you a verified score out of 5, a clear baseline and a roadmap to strengthen your recovery capability over time.

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