Disaster Recovery Planning for MSPs
Disaster Recovery Planning is not just “restoring from a backup”.
A Business Continuity Plan identifies the critical processes and systems inside your client’s organization.
A Disaster Recovery Plan outlines how IT services will be restored if facilities or systems go down.
An Incident Response Plan guides the response to a cybersecurity event, including gap analysis and recommendations for improvement.
The Foundational Plan Must Be First
Many organizations know they need a plan but have not developed one. A Foundational Plan is required before detailed system-level plans can be created.
We help gather the right internal information and create plans that meet client, insurance, and regulatory requirements.
This baseline view of processes, systems, facilities, and people ensures your clients can move toward a complete, compliant plan.
Through interviews, worksheets, and surveys we prepare a Disaster Recovery Plan that aligns with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST 800.34) and covers Identify, Respond, and Recover objectives.
The final report will include:
A business continuity assessment that identifies all critical functions.
A prioritized order of operations for restoring those functions during a disaster.
Strategic responses to incidents and their possible outcomes.
Clear steps for restoring operations quickly.
Identification of current gaps in resilience and restoration capabilities.
An incident response plan tailored to the organization.
A disaster recovery plan for one or more core areas.
A complete business continuity plan for at least one core area
This report is intended to bring awareness and act as a launching pad for future improvements to your disaster recovery capabilities.
Why This Matters for MSPs
Clients expect you to keep their businesses running no matter what happens. Offering Disaster Recovery Planning under your brand makes you the partner who helps them reduce risk, satisfy insurance requirements, and avoid downtime that could cost millions. With BCSS you get white-label plans, frameworks, and reports you can deliver with confidence, so you look bigger, win more deals, and keep clients longer.
Areas of Focus
Business Continuity
Process
- Process and Systems Inventory
- Plan Management
Deliverables
- Emergency Contact Information
- Introduction
- Office and Facility Locations
- Priority Process Inventory
- Updates and Annual Review Process
- Distribution
- Senior Manager Approval
Disaster Recovery
Process
- Facility Inventory
- Systems Inventory
- Communications Plan
- Plan Management
Deliverables
- Introduction
- Office and Facility Locations
- Disaster Detection and Determination
- Communications Plan (Internal/External)
- Activation of Backup Facilities
- Disaster Recovery Strategy
- System Inventory
- Recovery Team Descriptions
- Updates and Annual Review Process
- Distribution
- Senior Manager Approval
Incident Response
Process
- Detection Controls
- Communications Plan
- Plan Management
Deliverables
- Adverse Event Definition
- Detection Controls
- Communications Plan (Internal/External)
- Recovery Team Descriptions
- Incident Response Framework
- Updates and Annual Review Process
- Distribution
- Senior Manager Approval