Business resilience services for UK organisations
Disaster recovery, backup, incident response and tested business continuity planning. Keep operating when the unexpected happens, and recover quickly when it does.
The risks business resilience exists to handle
Ransomware can lock you out in minutes. Without protected backups and a tested recovery plan, a single incident can cost weeks of downtime and significant financial damage.
Disasters do not discriminate. Fire, flood, hardware failure or human error can hit any business on any day.
Untested plans fail when you need them. Plans written once and filed away rarely survive contact with a real incident. The detail goes stale fast.
Compliance now requires it. GDPR, the FCA’s operational resilience rules and sector-specific frameworks expect documented, tested business continuity capability.
Our approach to business resilience
Four service strands, designed to work together so your business can keep running and recover quickly when something gets through:
– Backup-as-a-Service. Automated, encrypted backups stored securely offsite.
– Disaster recovery planning. Tested, documented procedures matched to your risk profile.
– Cyber incident exercising. Realistic simulations that test your response and find the gaps.
– 24/7 incident response. Contain threats, minimise damage and restore operations quickly when an incident occurs.
Our business resilience services
Backup-as-a-Service
Automated, encrypted backups with documented recovery capability.
Disaster recovery planning
Comprehensive DR strategies, tested against your risk profile.
Cyber incident exercising
Realistic simulations that test your response and identify gaps before a real incident does.
Incident response
Rapid containment and recovery when disaster strikes, from our 24/7 team.
Business continuity assessments
Evaluate your current resilience posture and build a roadmap for improvement.
Sectors we protect
Business resilience for every sector. Three of the industries where the consequences of a failed recovery extend far beyond IT:
Healthcare
Downtime in a healthcare environment carries risks beyond the financial. We help healthcare providers protect patient records, maintain clinical system availability, and meet NHS and CQC requirements for business continuity, so that an IT incident never becomes a patient safety issue.
Local authorities deliver services that communities depend on, and disruption has consequences well beyond IT. We help local government organisations build tested recovery capability, protect citizen data, and maintain operational continuity under the scrutiny that public sector incidents invariably attract.
Critical national infrastructure demands resilience planning that goes beyond standard business continuity. We help utilities and energy providers protect operational systems, plan for worst-case scenarios, and recover quickly from incidents, minimising the impact on the services their customers and communities rely on.
Our business resilience partners
Business resilience services: frequently asked questions
How often should we test our disaster recovery plan?
At minimum once a year, but for most businesses that is not enough. We recommend testing critical recovery scenarios at least twice a year, with a lighter tabletop exercise each quarter to keep your team familiar with the plan. The businesses that suffer most during a real incident are almost always those whose DR plan was written once and never revisited. Technology changes, people move on, and a plan that worked eighteen months ago can have significant gaps today.
What's the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup is the copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the plan, and the capability, to get your business operational again when something goes wrong. You need both, but they are not the same thing. A backup without a tested recovery process is just data sitting somewhere; it tells you nothing about how long it will take to restore your systems, or whether that restoration will actually work under pressure. Disaster recovery defines your recovery time objectives, your priorities, and exactly who does what when an incident occurs.
How long does it take to recover from a ransomware attack?
Without a tested recovery plan and clean backups: weeks, sometimes longer. With the right preparation in place: hours. The difference comes down to how well a business has prepared. Backups isolated from the main network, a documented recovery process, and a team that has rehearsed the response all compress recovery time dramatically. We have helped clients recover critical systems within four hours of a ransomware incident; without that groundwork, the same situation could mean weeks of downtime.
Do you support hybrid cloud and on-premise?
Yes. Most of our clients run a mix of on-premise infrastructure and cloud services, and our backup and disaster recovery solutions are designed to work across both. Whether your critical systems sit in your own datacentre, on Azure or AWS, or somewhere in between, we design a recovery architecture that covers the full environment with a single, tested plan, rather than separate approaches that may not work together when you need them most.
How do we reduce the chances of needing disaster recovery in the first place?
The best recovery plan is one you never have to use. Investing in cybersecurity services, from threat monitoring and penetration testing to staff awareness training, significantly reduces the likelihood of an incident occurring. Resilience and prevention work best when planned together.