Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Advisory

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Advisory

Our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Advisory Service empowers you to stay resilient in the face of disruption. We provide expert guidance to assess risks, design robust recovery strategies, and implement continuity plans tailored to your business needs.

By combining industry best practices with industry standards and practical insights, we help you minimise downtime, protect critical operations, and ensure your business remains operational no matter what challenges arise.

ISO 22301:2019 sets requirements for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, maintaining, and continually improving a Business Continuity Management System. It ensures organisations are prepared to respond to, recover from, and mitigate disruptive incidents, thereby safeguarding critical operations and enhancing resilience. (ISO)

This standard offers guidance specifically for information and communication technology (ICT) systems to support business continuity objectives. It aligns with ISO 22301 principles but focuses on preparing IT infrastructure to prevent, respond, and recover from ICT-related disruptions.

We help you stay resilient by delivering tailored Disaster Recovery strategies that minimise downtime and protect your critical operations. Our experts ensures you are prepared for any disruption, with plans aligned to global standards and industry best practices.

Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

We identify potential threats and evaluates their impact on your critical business functions. We help you prioritise recovery efforts by defining key dependencies, vulnerabilities, and acceptable downtime thresholds. With actionable insights, we create a clear roadmap to strengthen resilience and ensure continuity under any scenario.

Disaster Recovery Strategy Development

We create tailored plans to restore your critical systems and operations quickly after a disruption. We define clear recovery objectives, prioritise essential resources, and design the strategies that align with your business goals and compliance requirements. By leveraging industry best practices and proven methodologies, we ensure you can recover efficiently and minimise downtime to your business customers.

Business Continuity Planning

We ensures you can maintain essential operations during and after an IT service disruption. We develop comprehensive, practical plans that cover people, processes, and technology, aligned with ISO 22301 and industry best practices. By creating clear procedures and communication strategies, we help you minimise downtime to your customer base and protect your business reputation.

Policy and Governance Framework

Together, we establish clear structures to manage your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity tests and invocations effectively. We help you define roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths, ensuring accountability and compliance with global standards. Through creating robust policies and governance models, we enable your organisation to maintain resilience and respond confidently to disruptions.

Business Continuity Planning

Policy and Governance Framework

Technology and Infrastructure Advisory

We help you select and implement the right solutions to support your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity services. We provide expert guidance on backup strategies, replication, failover systems, and cloud or hybrid recovery options tailored to your business needs. Aligning technology investments with resilience objectives, we ensure your critical systems remain secure and recoverable under any circumstances.

Compliance and Standards Alignment

Our experts work with you and your team to create your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans ensuring they meet global benchmarks and regulatory requirements. We guide you through ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27031, and other relevant standards, providing audit readiness and certification support. We align your strategies with best practices, we help you achieve resilience whilst maintaining full compliance and reducing risk exposure.

Testing and Simulation

We work with you to validate the effectiveness of your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans through carefully selected IT services and business scenarios. We work with your team to facilitate and conduct tabletop exercises, live drills, and failover simulations to identify gaps and strengthen the response strategies. Only through rigorous testing will your plans demonstrate your organisation is prepared to act quickly and confidently during any business IT disruption.

Incident Response Planning

We equip you with clear, actionable protocols to manage disruptions effectively. We design response frameworks for cyber incidents, natural disasters, and system failures, ensuring rapid containment and recovery. We integrate communication strategies and escalation paths, to help you minimise the impact of a service disruption and restore operations with confidence.

Testing and Simulation

Incident Response Planning

Training and Awareness

Our advisors empower your team to respond effectively during any service impacting disruptions. We deliver tailored workshops, scenario-based exercises, and role-specific guidance to build confidence and clarity in a crisis situation. We help foster a culture of preparedness, we ensure every employee understands their responsibilities and contributes to organisational resilience.

Continuous Improvement and Monitoring

We ensure your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans remain effective and up to date. We regularly review strategies, analyse performance metrics, and incorporate lessons learned from tests and real incidents. We help maintain a cycle of improvement, helping you stay resilient against evolving risks and emerging threats.

Disruptions can strike at any time, whether from cyberattacks, natural disasters, system failures, or human error. Without a clear Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategy, you risk costly downtime, data loss, and reputational damage.

Our advisory service ensures your business is prepared to respond quickly and effectively, minimising impact and safeguarding critical operations. By aligning with global standards like ISO 22301, we help you build resilience, maintain customer trust, and protect revenue streams, even in the face of unexpected challenges.

93% of companies without a disaster recovery plan who suffer a major data loss close within one year.

(MeredithCPA)

The average cost of IT downtime generally ranges from $5,600 to over $9,000 per minute, with some recent reports for high-impact outages placing the median cost around $33,333 per minute for large enterprises. The actual cost varies significantly based on business size, industry, and the nature of the outage.

Integrated Cyber Resilience and Disaster Recovery Expertise

We deliver Disaster Recovery as part of a broader Cyber Resilience and Incident Response Advisory capability, ensuring clients are prepared for both operational disruptions and cyberdriven outages. Services include ransomware recovery strategies, cyber resilience readiness assessments, and alignment to NIST/ISO frameworks.

Proactive Testing and Continuous Readiness

We can provide quarterly/half yearly DR testing, performance monitoring, scenario simulations, and compliance audits to maintain your recovery readiness. This provides you with ongoing assurance that your DR plans will actually work under evolving conditions, not just on paper.

Structured, CrossFunctional Business Continuity Planning

We integrate Business Continuity planning across HR, Finance, Operations, and other key functions, ensuring clients have a cohesive and organisationwide continuity strategy rather than siloed plans. This also supports audit and regulatory readiness.

Deep Cybersecurity Foundations that Strengthen DR/BC Outcomes

From Vulnerability Management and 24/7 Threat Detection to Cloud Security and Governance Frameworks, our broader security services underpin stronger recovery outcomes. This ensures your DR/BC plans are aligned with realworld security risks, not generic continuity templates.

Tailored Protection Strategies Focused on Critical Infrastructure and Data

Northwick Cybersecurity emphasises customised protection strategies, advanced Threat Detection, and rapid Incident Response, all crucial for minimising downtime and safeguarding critical systems during a disruption. Clients gain security and continuity approaches designed to fit their specific environment.

A HumanCentric, Approachable Partnership Model

Unlike traditional providers, we position ourselves as handson, approachable, and collaborative, sharing knowledge with your teams at every level. This builds internal capability, improves incident readiness, and strengthens continuity maturity over time.

Business Needs

Our client needed a clearer, consolidated view of its Disaster Recovery capability, including system dependencies, recovery sequencing and ownership. Inconsistent documentation and unclear responsibilities created risk, making structured discovery, coordination and readiness validation essential to strengthen resilience.

Our Approach

Our Advisors led a structured discovery process, engaging technology and application teams to document dependencies, recovery steps and ownership. We built validated test scripts, defined infrastructure boot order, clarified communication channels and produced complete recovery documentation to support a coordinated, realistic Disaster Recovery exercise.

Customer Benefits

Our client gained accurate, consistent recovery scripts, a unified boot sequence and a complete runbook improving readiness and confidence. Clear roles, validated processes and improved communication reduced ambiguity, supported compliance and strengthened longterm operational resilience across all technology streams.

"…. the team delivered clarity, structure and confidence, transforming fragmented information into a cohesive, actionable recovery framework that strengthened overall resilience…."

BUSINESS RESILIENCE MANAGER

Business Needs

Our client urgently needed to exit its longstanding Disaster Recovery facility, requiring a seamless migration to a new, modern Data Centre. Complex dependencies, thirdparty coordination, evolving risks and strict deadlines demanded meticulous planning to maintain service continuity and operational stability throughout the transition.

Our Approach

We applied structured governance, detailed planning and early stakeholder alignment, validating the new site before migration. Soft transitions were rehearsed and executed, followed by a highly coordinated physical move. Systems were commissioned, tested and stabilised before the legacy site was fully decommissioned to meet all compliance and timing requirements.

Customer Benefits

Our client achieved a resilient, scalable and modern Disaster Recovery environment with fully validated systems and improved operational continuity. Legacy risks were removed, efficiency increased and future growth supported through enhanced capacity, updated platforms and reduced operating costs. The structured approach delivered confidence, stability and strong longterm technology foundations.

"….. the team delivered a disciplined, clear coordination under pressure, ensuring a precise, confident migration that strengthened resilience and modernised our environment ….. "

Services Because Downtime is Not an Option

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Advisory

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Advisory

OVERVIEW

INDUSTRY STANDARDS

ISO 22301 – Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS)

ISO/IEC 27031 – ICT Readiness for Business Continuity

OUR SERVICES