Data Recovery / Data Resilience

The leadership Team Needs to understand the Impact of IT Infrastructure on Business Risk

• What Types of incidences would create the most damage to the Organization? List these in order of cost
• Given the above list, what is the likelihood that any of them would occur?
• What is the cost to the organization to prevent or adequately prepare for any of the prioritized incidences?
• Decide how to most effectively allocate resources to prevent and protect from each prioritized incident

• Multiple methodologies across multiple devices. We discuss with the client their needed:
  • Recovery Point Objective – quantifies the tolerable amount of data loss in case of an interruption
  • Recovery Time Objective – The tolerable amount of time for the recovery of a business resource

For Data Resilience and Incident Response to be effective, There Are Critical Steps That Must Be adhered To:

• Virtualized Server Farm Where Multiple Servers Back Each Other Up
  Protection from server failures, storage device failures
  • Critical assets can be replicated over multiple servers and storage devices
  • Automatic failover for servers and for storage if needed
  • Failing or impaired resources’ functions can be re-allocated to alternative working equipment
• Redundant Power/Internet Sources
  Redundant Power/Internet SourcesProtection from power outages and/or Internet Outages At Either Data Center
  • In the event of a power outage, the Data Center is set to automatically failover to a backup Diesel Generator
  • In the event that an Internet Service Provider has their service interrupted, the Data Center has multiple lines coming in from multiple carriers
• Multiple Data Centers to Back Each Other UP
  Protection from CIS not being to able to access/operate one of their Data Centers. We can duplicate the functionality in a geographically dispersed Data Center and restore all functionality
• High levels of security and backup capability in both locations and across both locations

Your information is too valuable to rely on a single line of defense. That’s why we use a Multi- layered Backup & Recovery Strategy—combining multiple safeguards to keep your data safe, available, and uncompromised.

Cyber threats evolve every day. Attackers look for weak spots, and relying on one tool or method isn’t enough. By implementing multiple overlapping safeguards, we ensure that if one layer is bypassed, others are already in place to block, detect, and respond to the attack.

Local Backups for Rapid Recovery

• High-speed recovery from on-site backup devices
• Frequent snapshots to capture recent changes
• Ideal for quick restores of single files or entire systems

Off-Site Backups for Disaster Protection

• Replication to a secure secondary data center
• Geographic separation to protect against local events (fires, floods, outages)
• Encrypted during transfer and at rest

Immutable & Air-Gapped Storage

• Backup copies that cannot be altered or deleted
• Physical or logical isolation from the primary network
• Protection from ransomware and malicious insiders

Automated Backup Monitoring & Alerts

• 24/7 backup job monitoring
• Automated error detection and remediation workflows
• Proactive alerting if a job fails or falls out of compliance

The Result

This layered defense model provides:

• Resilience – If one safeguard fails, others immediately take over
• Early Detection – Stop attacks before they cause harm
• Rapid Response – Minimize downtime and prevent data loss
• Peace of Mind – Knowing your data is protected from multiple angles

Regular Recovery Testing

• Scheduled restore drills to verify data integrity throughout the year
  • Tabletop exercises
  • Simulation Testing
  • Parallel Testing
• Performance benchmarks to ensure Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) are met
• Post-test reports to identify improvement areas

A 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) can significantly strengthen your data resilience by combining continuous monitoring, rapid detection, and coordinated response to threats that could compromise data availability, integrity, or recoverability.

Continuous Threat Detection

• Always-on monitoring ensures malicious activity is detected regardless of when it occurs — nights, weekends, or holidays.
• Reduces the risk of long dwell times, where an attacker remains undetected and can tamper with backups or steal sensitive information.
• SOC analysts use SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) tools and threat intelligence feeds to spot anomalies in real time.

Rapid Containment of Incidents

• If ransomware or data corruption attempts are detected, the SOC can immediately isolate affected systems before damage spreads.
• This quick action protects backup repositories and replication sites from being encrypted, deleted, or otherwise compromised.
• Minimizes the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) by reducing the scale of the incident.

Protection for Backup & Recovery Infrastructure

• SOC teams can monitor backup job logs, storage devices, and replication traffic for signs of tampering or abnormal patterns.
• Alerts can trigger automated failover to secondary data centers or immutable backup systems.
• This ensures that recovery points remain clean and usable.