Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Stay Operational Through Any Disruption
From ransomware to fire, flood, or hardware failure—TechniWorx ensures your business can recover quickly with minimal data loss and downtime. We build, test, and manage your complete continuity plan.
Enterprise-grade data replication, backup systems, and disaster recovery planning to keep your business resilient
Key Concepts
Understanding RTO & RPO
Before you can build an effective recovery plan, you must define your acceptable thresholds. These two metrics drive every technology decision in your BCDR strategy.
The maximum acceptable length of time your systems can be offline after a disruption before causing unacceptable harm to your business.
Example: 'We must restore operations within 4 hours of an outage.'
The maximum age of data that must be recovered for your business to resume normal operations—essentially, how much data loss is tolerable.
Example: 'We cannot afford to lose more than 1 hour of transaction data.'
Most SMBs Don't Know Their RTO or RPO
Without defined objectives, recovery becomes guesswork. We facilitate an RTO/RPO workshop with your leadership team to establish targets that balance cost and risk—then build your technical stack to meet them.
What We Plan For
Threats We Help You Survive
Disasters come in many forms. Your continuity plan must account for the full spectrum—from digital to physical.
Ransomware Attack
Encrypted systems with ransom demands—one of the most common and devastating disruptions for SMBs.
Fire or Physical Damage
On-premises hardware destroyed by fire, burst pipes, or physical intrusion.
Flooding & Natural Disaster
Flooding, severe storms, and natural events that render facilities inaccessible.
Cloud Service Outage
Dependency on a single cloud provider creating a single point of failure.
Hardware Failure
Server, storage, or critical infrastructure failure without a tested failover plan.
Accidental Data Deletion
Human error—accidentally deleted files, misconfigured systems, or botched updates.
Backup Architecture
The 3-2-1-1 Backup Strategy
We implement a modern 3-2-1-1 backup strategy: 3 copies of data, on 2 different media types, with 1 offsite copy, and 1 immutable (ransomware-proof) copy. Here's how each tier works.
Local On-Site Backup
Fast, granular restore capability for file-level and application-level recovery. Ideal for everyday accidents and rapid recovery of non-catastrophic incidents.
- Continuous or hourly snapshots
- File & folder restores in minutes
- Application-aware backups (SQL, Exchange)
- Local NAS or backup appliance
Offsite / Cloud Backup
A geographically separated copy of your data that survives physical site disasters. Encrypted in transit and at rest—your safety net when on-site hardware is gone.
- Automated daily/nightly replication
- AES-256 encryption in transit & at rest
- Geographic redundancy
- Retention policies for compliance
Cloud DR Failover
Full virtual server replication to the cloud enables rapid failover—your team can be working in cloud-hosted VMs within minutes of a site disaster.
- Virtualised server replicas in Azure / AWS
- Sub-hour failover capability
- Tested quarterly recovery runbooks
- DNS & networking cut-over automation
Documentation & Planning
A Complete Business Continuity Plan
Technology alone doesn't ensure continuity. You need a documented, rehearsed plan that your entire team understands. We facilitate the development of your full BCP—covering people, processes, and technology.
Our plans are living documents—stored securely and updated with every infrastructure change, staff update, or test finding. When disaster strikes, your team won't be searching for answers.
All plans include tabletop exercise facilitation and annual review services.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Identify your critical processes, their dependencies, and the financial/operational impact of disruption. This forms the foundation of your entire plan.
Risk Assessment
Map every plausible threat scenario to likelihood and impact, prioritising the risks your continuity investments must address first.
Recovery Strategies
Document step-by-step recovery procedures for each critical system and process, with assigned roles and vendor escalation paths.
Communication Plan
Define how employees, clients, vendors, and leadership are notified during an incident—including out-of-band communication if email is down.
DR Testing Schedule
Untested plans are just documents. We schedule tabletop exercises, failover tests, and restore drills to validate your plan under realistic conditions.
Annual Plan Review
Business environments change. We review and update your BCP annually—or after any significant infrastructure, personnel, or process change.
Ransomware Recovery
Don't Pay the Ransom. Restore Instead.
The average ransomware payment for SMBs exceeds ~$200,000—and paying doesn't guarantee recovery. Our ransomware-resilient backup and response strategy means you have a clean restore point ready before the attack happens.
Immutable backups cannot be encrypted or deleted by ransomware. Combined with our tested recovery runbooks, we can have your critical systems restored in hours rather than days.
Build Your Recovery PlanDetect
EDR and SIEM alerts identify ransomware behavior within seconds of execution
Contain
Automated isolation of affected endpoints prevents spread across your network
Assess
Forensic analysis identifies the entry point, scope of impact, and data affected
Restore
Recovery from immutable backups to clean hardware or cloud VMs
Remediate
Entry point closed, credentials reset, and additional controls deployed
Document
Post-incident report with lessons learned updates your BCP
Don't Wait for Disaster
How Long Could Your Business Survive an Outage?
Schedule a BCDR assessment. We'll review your current backup strategy, define your RTO/RPO, and identify critical gaps—at no cost and no obligation.