What is disaster recovery?

Disaster recovery is an essential and critical part of the modern IT and cloud environment. It involves planning and implementing measures to recover data and IT infrastructure in the event of unexpected events such as various accidents, natural disasters, technical failures, or cyber attacks.

Disaster recovery saves your data in the event of a cyber-attack and technical failure

From the above it is clear that nowadays disaster recovery, or rather a disaster recovery plan, is mandatory equipment for every modern business, a kind of "last resort box".

There are other key elements and concepts associated with disaster recovery that need to be made clear. Let's get to it:

  • Recovery Plan: Those who are ready are not caught off guard. Disaster recovery starts with creating a detailed plan that defines the process to recover data and services. This plan includes identifying critical systems, prioritizing recovery, and establishing roles and responsibilities for the recovery team.
  • Data backup: If you haven't already dealt with data backup, you'd better not brag about it to any IT specialist. That's like putting your money in a straw jar at home. Or maybe right out the window. Backing up is a key step in ensuring your data is available in the event of a crisis or disaster. Data backups should be set up regularly, automatically, and data should be stored in a secure location away from the main network environment.
  • Data protection: Just as having an antivirus program on your personal computer is a necessity these days, data protection needs to be addressed on a company basis. Data protection includes encryption, firewalls and other security measures that prevent unauthorized access to important information.
  • Testing and exercises: Having a plan is step #1. Equally important is to test it regularly, update it and train the team. Testing the recovery plan and simulating crisis situations is critical to ensuring an effective recovery process.
  • RTO and RPO: If you don't have enough shortcuts in your business, we'll throw in two. Do you know RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective)? RTO defines the maximum acceptable time frame for service recovery. RPO represents the maximum data loss a company is willing to tolerate.

Ensure the continuity of your business

As an IT and cloud service provider with its own data centre, disaster recovery is a key element of SafeDX's offering to help ensure business continuity for our clients. With disaster recovery, we are able to ensure that data is always available and protected, regardless of unforeseen events.