A backup is only reliable when recovery has been attempted.
Ransomware, administrative errors, failures, deletions and cloud compromises can make data and systems unavailable. The presence of a copy is not enough: you need to know that it is intact, protected by the same accounts as the production environment and can be restored within the time required by the business.
Strategy analysis
- coverage of servers, endpoints, databases, SaaS and critical configurations;
- frequency, retention and consistency with RPO and operational requirements;
- offline, immutable or logically isolated copies;
- separation of accounts and protection of backup consoles;
- encryption, error monitoring and capacity control;
- dependencies needed for recovery, including identity, DNS, network and keys;
- procedures to rebuild a clean environment after a compromise.
Restore test and disaster recovery
NESQ defines progressive test scenarios: recovery of individual files, databases, virtual machines, and complete services. During the test, times, manual steps, errors and undocumented dependencies are measured. The results feed the disaster recovery plan and the restart sequence.
Output
The customer receives a resilience assessment, corrective actions, operational procedures and a testing schedule. The goal is to reduce uncertainty when every minute of downtime has an economic and organizational impact.