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BCP & Disaster Recovery

When Everything Goes Down, Your BCP Decides If Your Business Comes Back.

Business continuity planning and disaster recovery services for Indian businesses. BIA, recovery strategy, DR planning, and validation testing. Ensure your business survives any disruption.

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What Is BCP & Disaster Recovery?

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) ensure your business can continue operating during and recover from disruptive events — including cyber attacks, natural disasters, infrastructure failures, and other crises.

For Indian businesses, BCP/DR is not just a compliance checkbox. India faces unique challenges: monsoon-related disruptions, power infrastructure instability in certain regions, rising ransomware attacks, and complex dependency chains across IT service providers. A comprehensive BCP/DR programme ensures that your critical business functions continue — and that you can recover your IT systems within timeframes that your business can tolerate.

Verentix provides BCP/DR services with a unique advantage: our offensive security expertise means we design recovery plans that account for adversarial scenarios — not just natural disasters. When a ransomware attack encrypts your systems and deletes your backups, will your DR plan still work? Most BCP consultants do not ask this question. We do.

Why Your Business Needs This

Most Indian businesses discover their BCP/DR plans do not work when they need them most. Common failures include recovery procedures that have never been tested end-to-end, backup systems that fail during actual recovery (corrupted backups, missing data, longer recovery times than expected), DR sites that are not adequately maintained or synchronised, BCP plans that were written 3 years ago and no longer reflect current business processes or IT infrastructure, and no consideration for cyber attack scenarios — the BCP assumes natural disasters but not ransomware.

ISO 27001 requires business continuity planning. RBI mandates DR capabilities for regulated entities. CERT-In expects organisations to have incident response and recovery capabilities. Beyond compliance, a single extended outage can cost Indian businesses lakhs per hour in lost revenue, customer trust, and regulatory penalties.

What You Get

check_circle Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifying critical processes and recovery priorities
check_circle Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) definition
check_circle DR architecture design — backup strategy, replication, DR site configuration
check_circle BCP documentation covering all critical business functions
check_circle Tabletop and live DR testing to validate recovery procedures
check_circle Adversarial resilience — plans that work even during a cyber attack

Our Approach

Business Impact Analysis (Week 1-2): We identify your critical business processes, map their IT dependencies, and determine acceptable downtime (RTO) and data loss (RPO) for each. This drives every subsequent decision.

Strategy Development (Week 2-4): Based on the BIA, we design your recovery strategy — backup architecture, DR site configuration, failover procedures, and communication plans. We specifically address ransomware resilience — air-gapped backups, immutable storage, and recovery procedures that work when primary systems are compromised.

Plan Documentation (Week 4-6): We document comprehensive BCP and DR plans — including step-by-step recovery procedures, role assignments, communication templates, vendor contacts, and decision trees for different disruption scenarios.

Testing and Validation (Week 6-8): We conduct tabletop exercises (scenario walkthroughs with your team) and live DR tests (actual failover to DR systems) to validate that plans work as designed and that recovery timeframes meet BIA requirements.

Annual Review (Ongoing): BCP/DR plans must be updated as your business changes. We provide annual review and update services to ensure plans remain current and effective.

Real Results for Indian Businesses

A fintech company in Mumbai discovered during our BIA that their payment processing system — which they assumed had a 24-hour RTO — actually needed to be recovered within 2 hours based on RBI requirements and SLA obligations. Their existing DR plan did not come close to meeting this requirement. Our redesigned DR architecture achieved a 45-minute RTO.

A SaaS company in Pune tested their DR plan for the first time during our engagement — and discovered their database replication had been broken for 3 months without anyone noticing. If a disaster had occurred, they would have lost 3 months of customer data. Our DR testing programme now runs quarterly.

A hospital chain in Maharashtra implemented our BCP with specific ransomware resilience measures — including immutable backups and an isolated recovery environment. When they were actually targeted by a ransomware attack 8 months later, they recovered all systems within 6 hours without paying the ransom.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between BCP and DR?expand_more
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) covers how your entire business continues during a disruption — including manual procedures, alternate work locations, communication plans, and people processes. Disaster Recovery (DR) specifically covers the recovery of IT systems and data. BCP is the broader plan; DR is a component of BCP.
How often should we test our DR plan?expand_more
At minimum annually for full DR tests, and quarterly for tabletop exercises. Any major infrastructure change should also trigger a DR plan review and test. Untested DR plans provide false confidence — you only know your plan works when you have actually tested it.
Do you consider ransomware in your BCP/DR planning?expand_more
Absolutely — this is a key differentiator. Traditional BCP consultants plan for natural disasters and hardware failures. We also plan for adversarial scenarios — ransomware that encrypts backups, insider threats, and supply chain compromises. Your DR plan must work even when an attacker is actively trying to prevent your recovery.
What is an acceptable RTO for Indian businesses?expand_more
It depends on your business. Payment processing may need sub-1-hour RTO. E-commerce can typically tolerate 2-4 hours. Internal systems may accept 24 hours. The BIA determines the right RTO for each business function based on financial impact, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.

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