Recovery Assurance
010 Recovery Assurance helps organizations validate whether protection and recovery controls translate into practical recoverability, then turns the findings into evidence leadership can understand.
What Recovery Assurance connects
Recovery Assurance is not another tool. It is the discipline that links what is deployed to what can actually be recovered.
Agree which services matter most and how quickly they need to return.
Confirm that security, backup and archive capabilities cover what matters.
Define the recovery sequence, dependencies, runbooks and responsibilities.
Test recovery in ways that suit the organization’s objectives and risk.
Record results, exceptions and remaining uncertainty in plain language.
Feed findings back into priorities, ownership and the next review.
Four capabilities, one assurance discipline
Business priorities and continuity decide what each capability must protect. Each capability creates recovery potential. Recovery Assurance checks how they work together, and governance keeps them current.
Monitoring, protection and response that support operational resilience.
Managed protection, retention and integrity monitoring, with restore checks matched to business needs.
Recovery designed and exercised against agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives.
Governed long-term retention, with Canadian data-residency options for selected services.
What evidence should show
Good recovery evidence answers a short list of questions that leadership, auditors, insurers and partners all ask in one form or another.
If the answers are unclear, that is a finding in itself, and a useful place to start.
The services and data the organization needs back first.
Which capabilities cover those services today.
What has been tested, and what was observed.
Untested assumptions, exceptions and known gaps.
Agreed priorities, owners and the next review.
The lifecycle
One cycle, repeated as the environment changes. See how each stage works →
Identify critical services, what they depend on and how fast they must return.
Align backup, retention, security and recovery design with what the business needs.
Test recovery in a controlled way and measure the results.
Record what was tested, what happened and what remains uncertain.
Fix the gaps that matter most, then test again as things change.
Ways to engage
Start wherever you are. Some organizations want to understand their exposure first. Others come to us with a migration or a recovery project already in hand. Discovery and validation are built into each.
“Help me understand my exposure.”
“Help me deliver a project.”
“Help me keep recovery ready.”
“We’ve already been hit.”
If ransomware, a major outage or data loss has already stopped your operations, contact us to discuss recovery assistance. We will confirm availability and next steps. We help contain the incident, find out what can be recovered, restore the services that matter most in the right order, and record what was done for leadership and your insurer. You don’t need to be a 010 client. Once you are back up and running, what we learned becomes the starting point for Recovery Assurance.
Operate and govern
Systems, people and providers keep changing, so recovery has to be checked again and again. After an assessment or a project, Ongoing Recovery Assurance keeps your recovery tested and reported. Scope and frequency are agreed for each engagement.
Regular reviews on a schedule set with you.
Plans and runbooks kept in step with your environment.
Recovery tested at agreed intervals, with the right method for each service.
Every gap logged, given an owner and followed to closure.
Migrations, new systems and new providers trigger a fresh look.
Plain-language results for leadership, auditors and insurers.
How this differs from Managed Backup: Managed Backup keeps protected copies of your data. Ongoing Recovery Assurance checks, on an agreed schedule, that your critical services can actually be recovered, and reports what it finds.
Questions
It is the practice of validating whether an organization can recover what matters, and recording the evidence in a form leadership can use. It connects security operations, backup, disaster recovery and archive to agreed recovery outcomes.
Cybersecurity focuses on preventing and detecting incidents. Recovery Assurance focuses on what happens next: whether critical operations can be restored, in what order, and how well that has been tested.
A completed backup job shows that data was copied. It does not show that systems can be restored in the right sequence, with the right access, within the time the business needs.
It depends on how quickly the environment changes and how critical the services are. Many organizations review after major changes and on a regular schedule agreed with leadership.
Most organizations begin with a Recovery Assurance Assessment. It shows where you stand today and what to improve first.
