Setting Recovery Objectives That Hold Under Pressure
How operations and IT teams in South Africa can agree recovery time and recovery point targets that reflect real downtime costs, not wishful numbers on a slide.
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Notes from backup and recovery security planning
Articles for practitioners who set recovery objectives, protect backup copies, and rehearse restores with the people who will execute them.
Protecting Backup Copies from Misuse and Tampering
Backup stores are high-value targets. Practical steps to harden access, retention locks, and offline or immutable copies without drowning the team in complexity.
Running an Honest Restore Rehearsal
A restore rehearsal should surprise you a little. How to design exercises that reveal gaps without putting live operations at unnecessary risk.
Briefing Leadership on Recovery Risk Without Alarmism
Boards and executives need clear language about backup exposure. Framing residual risk, investment choices, and verification evidence in plain terms.