Ransomware, a dead server, a flooded office, a deleted database — the question isn't whether something takes you down, it's how long you're down when it does. I build the plan that turns a catastrophe into a few hours of disruption instead of a few weeks of survival mode.
Most small businesses think they're covered because something is "backing up." Then the bad day comes and they discover the backup was incomplete, encrypted along with everything else, or impossible to restore in time. Here's what real recovery looks like.
The day you need to restore is the worst day to find out it doesn't work. Three ways it goes wrong for businesses your size:
Modern ransomware hunts for your backups first. If they live on the same network, the attacker takes them out before you even know you're hit.
Backups run green for years and no one confirms they can actually be restored. A backup you haven't restored from is an untested assumption, not a safety net.
When it goes down, everyone turns to one person who's improvising under pressure. That's not continuity — that's a single point of failure with a pulse.
I'm not selling you a backup product. I've stood in the middle of a live attack and walked a multi-site business back from it.
In 2020 ransomware hit a business I ran IT for. We were back in two hours instead of the weeks most firms lose — because the backups were air-gapped and the recovery plan had been built and tested before we needed it.
I've run continuity across seven locations in five states. I know what breaks when a business has more than one place to keep running — and how to keep all of them up.
I own the plan and hold your vendors to it. You contract the backup and infrastructure providers directly — I make sure what they deliver actually protects you.
We define how much downtime and data loss the business can actually absorb, then design backward from those numbers instead of hoping the current setup is enough.
I assess what you have against what ransomware and hardware failure will actually do to it — and specify the air-gapped, tested setup that holds up.
A written, rehearsed plan for the first hours of an outage: who acts, what gets restored first, who gets called, and how the business keeps moving meanwhile.
I make sure restores are actually performed and verified on a schedule — so "we're backed up" is a proven fact, not a comforting story.
Let's make sure a bad day stays a bad day — not a closed business.
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