Managed service · Disaster recovery planning
A recovery plan you've actually tested.
KELYN plans, tests and keeps your disaster recovery plan current as a managed service: recovery objectives for every workload, DR exercises and restore testing, and a U.S.-based team that runs the recovery with you when it counts.
- Objectives
- RTO and RPO per workload
- Testing
- DR exercises, restore tests
- Review
- Biannual KELYN Score
- Team
- 100% U.S.-based
A recovery plan nobody has tested is a guess. KELYN tests yours before you need it.
What the plan covers
Everything a recovery depends on, written down and owned.
A disaster recovery plan is only as good as its weakest assumption. KELYN works through each part with your team and keeps it current.
- Recovery objectives
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives set for each workload, backed by SLAs for backup frequency and retention.
- Copies and locations
- A primary copy and a secondary location for disaster recovery, with immutable and air-gapped copies so a cyberattack can't reach every version of your data.
- Recovery plan for the backup platform
- A documented plan for bringing the data management infrastructure itself back first, because nothing else restores without it.
- Restore testing strategy
- How often restores are tested, which systems, and what a passing test looks like, for both disaster and cyber recovery scenarios.
- Clean recovery after an attack
- Recovery into an isolated cleanroom: isolate, check backups for threats, rebuild from a clean image, and validate before workloads return to production.
- Incident response plan
- Review and updates to your incident response plan in support of NIST SP 800-61 and the Cybersecurity Framework, so the recovery plan and the response plan agree.
How it works
Five steps, then it keeps going.
01
Assess
Establish your current readiness baseline with the KELYN Cyber Readiness Scorecard and a review of your environment.
02
Define objectives
Agree RTOs and RPOs for each workload and the SLAs behind them, starting with the systems the business can't run without.
03
Build the plan
Design copies, locations and recovery order around those objectives, and fit the plan to your infrastructure and goals.
04
Test it
Run DR exercises and restore tests, including recovery into an isolated cleanroom, and fix what the tests find.
05
Keep it current
A biannual KELYN Score review and ongoing collaboration keep the plan in step with your environment and with new threats.
The KELYN Score
Know where your recovery stands, twice a year.
A biannual review gives you quantitative metrics and qualitative insight into your infrastructure's health and recovery capabilities across five areas, including recovery testing and disaster recovery planning.
- 01Environmental Assessment and System Vulnerabilities
- 02Core Server Infrastructure and Storage Platform
- 03Backup Agents, Recovery Testing, and Disaster Recovery Planning
- 04Data Classification, Security Auditing, and Authorization Protocols
- 05Customized Cyber Recovery Processes
Proof
When the plan meets a real restore.
At the Missile Defense Agency, KELYN restored 16 terabytes of file server data in 16 hours. A similar restore had previously taken more than three days.
Find out how your recovery plan would hold up.
Start with the free Cyber Readiness Scorecard, or talk to a KELYN engineer about building, testing and running your disaster recovery plan.