Business Continuity & DR

Survive the disruption. Recover fast.

Business continuity and disaster recovery aligned to ISO 22301 — business impact analysis, strategy, plans and testing so your organisation can maintain critical operations and recover from disruption.

Business continuity and disaster recovery from Passeca, aligned to ISO 22301, helps your organisation maintain critical operations and recover from disruption — cyberattack, system failure or crisis. We run the business impact analysis, design the recovery strategy, document the plans, and test them so recovery is proven, not assumed.

Definition

What is business continuity and disaster recovery?

Business continuity (BCP) is the discipline of keeping critical business functions running during and after a disruption. Disaster recovery (DR) is the technical layer beneath it — restoring IT systems, applications and data. Together they answer: when something breaks, how do we keep operating, and how fast can we recover?

A ransomware attack is the most common modern disruption, but BCP/DR also covers hardware failure, datacentre outage, natural disaster and human error. The methodology — impact analysis, strategy, plans, testing — is the same.

Who needs it

Who needs BCP and DR?

  • You must meet DORA or NIS2 resilience and recovery obligations.
  • You are a ransomware target and need a tested recovery path, not hope.
  • Your downtime is costly — revenue, safety or reputation suffer every hour.
  • You have never tested your recovery and do not know if it would work.
What's included

What the service covers

Business impact analysis (BIA) with RTO/RPO definitions
Continuity and recovery strategy design
Business-continuity plans with roles and comms
Technical disaster-recovery runbooks
Backup and failover architecture review
Exercise programme — tabletop to full failover
ISO 22301 alignment and evidence
Ongoing plan maintenance and review
How it works

From impact analysis to tested recovery

  1. 01

    Business impact analysis

    We identify your critical business processes, their dependencies, and the impact of disruption over time — establishing recovery-time and recovery-point objectives that drive every subsequent decision.

  2. 02

    Strategy

    We design the continuity and recovery strategy — what is recovered, in what order, from where, and by whom — aligned to your objectives, risk appetite and budget.

  3. 03

    Plans

    We document the business-continuity and disaster-recovery plans: roles, activation criteria, communication, and the technical recovery runbooks for each critical system.

  4. 04

    Test & maintain

    A plan untested is a plan unproven. We facilitate exercises — tabletop to full failover — and maintain the plans as the business and threat landscape change.

The link to ransomware

BCP/DR is the recover layer

When ransomware prevention fails — and backups alone are not enough — BCP/DR is what determines how fast you come back.

In Passeca's ransomware bundle, BCP/DR is the recover layer: the tested recovery runbooks, failover design and backup strategy that get you back to operations after an incident. It complements prevention (Halcyon), detection (Deception) and response (IR retainer) — because no single layer is sufficient on its own. See our ransomware protection service for the full lifecycle.

Time & cost

How long and how much?

A BIA and strategy can be completed in weeks for a focused scope; a full enterprise programme with regular testing is ongoing. Pricing reflects the number of critical processes and the exercise cadence.

Compliance

Which compliance requirements this supports

  • ISO 22301 — the business-continuity management standard, the framework Passeca builds to.
  • DORA — ICT-related incident management, backup, recovery and resilience testing.
  • NIS2 — business continuity and crisis management as a risk-management measure.
  • ISO 27001 — information-security continuity and redundancy controls (A.5.29–A.5.30).
FAQ

Business continuity & disaster recovery, answered

The questions organisations ask before investing in resilience.

What is business continuity and disaster recovery (BCP/DR)?
Business continuity and disaster recovery is the discipline of ensuring an organisation can continue to operate — or recover quickly — when disrupted by cyberattack, system failure, natural disaster or other crisis. BCP focuses on keeping the business running; DR focuses on restoring IT systems and data. Passeca aligns the work to ISO 22301.
What is ISO 22301?
ISO 22301 is the international standard for business continuity management systems. It provides a structured framework — from business impact analysis through strategy, plans and testing — and is the benchmark auditors and regulators recognise. Passeca builds your BCP/DR programme to its requirements.
How does BCP/DR relate to ransomware recovery?
BCP/DR is what lets you recover from ransomware when prevention fails. Backups, failover and tested recovery runbooks determine whether an encryption event is a days-long outage or a weeks-long crisis. BCP/DR is the recover layer in Passeca's ransomware bundle.
What is the difference between RTO and RPO?
Recovery-time objective (RTO) is how quickly a system must be restored after disruption. Recovery-point objective (RPO) is how much data loss is tolerable — the maximum age of the data you recover. Both are set in the business impact analysis and drive the technical recovery design.
Do DORA and NIS2 require BCP/DR?
Yes. DORA requires financial entities to build ICT-related incident management, including backup and recovery, into operational-resilience testing. NIS2 requires business continuity and crisis management as a risk-management measure. A tested BCP/DR programme is how you evidence both.
How often should we test our BCP/DR plans?
At least annually for most organisations, and after significant change. Testing ranges from tabletop exercises through to full technical failover. Untested plans fail when needed — Passeca runs the exercise programme so recovery is proven, not assumed.
Always-on defence

Recovery isn't a plan until it's tested.

Book a free consultation. We will discuss your business continuity needs, recovery objectives, and the scope of a BCP/DR engagement.