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Could your business actually recover?

A disaster-recovery plan can look complete while leaving the business exposed. Answer ten practical questions to find the gaps worth discussing now—not during an outage.

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Readiness self-check

Choose the most accurate answer

“Not sure” is treated like “No.” In recovery planning, an unverified control cannot be relied upon.

01Can you name at least three disasters your current recovery plan explicitly addresses?
02Have business leadership and IT agreed on the top three systems or services that must be restored first?
03Can the business continue critical operations through a localized loss of commercial power?
04Can the business continue if internet service and business phones are unavailable for a full business day?
05Can employees perform critical work if the primary building is inaccessible for two weeks?
06Can administrators recover systems if the normal identity or cloud platform is unavailable?
07Is at least one usable backup protected from a compromised administrator or ransomware event?

Critical recovery control

08Has your team successfully restored representative business data within the past 12 months?

Critical recovery control

09Can another qualified person perform every critical recovery task if the usual IT person is unavailable?
10Has the organization exercised the recovery plan and measured actual recovery time?

This educational self-check is based on your answers. It is not an audit, certification, or guarantee of recoverability.