DR Plan
Disaster Recovery Plan Consultancy
Defines how systems and data come back, and how quickly, after a failure.
دولة الإمارات: نخدم العملاء في أبوظبي ودبي والشارقة وجبل علي والمناطق الحرة الصناعية
- Systems Back in Order
- Backups Proven, Not Assumed
- Ransomware Recovery Option
- Standby Capacity Costed
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- Practice area
- استمرارية الأعمال
- Industries
- 4
- Delivery
- Onsite, remote, hybrid
لماذا تستحق الاستشارة المتخصصة
نادراً ما تُخفق المنشآت في DR Plan لأن المعيار صعب، بل لأن الأدلة لا تطابق ما يطلبه المدقّق.
المعيار يقول لك ماذا، لا كيف
المعايير مكتوبة لتنطبق على كل منشأة، ولهذا بالذات لا تخبرك أبداً بما ينبغي فعله في منشأتك أنت. ترجمة البند إلى عملية قائمة عندك هي العمل الحقيقي.
المدقّقون يبحثون عن أدلة بعينها
الاستشاري الذي حضر مئات التدقيقات يعرف أي السجلات تُطلب فعلاً، وأي الإجابات لا تصمد أمام سؤال المتابعة.
وقت لا يملكه فريقك
القيام بذلك داخلياً يعني سحب أفضل موظفيك من عمل يدرّ دخلاً لعدة أشهر. ومعظم المنشآت تجد أن هذا يكلّف أكثر من الاستعانة بمن يقوم به.
توثيق يوافق طريقة عملكم
حزمة قوالب جاهزة تسقط من اليوم الأول لأن لا أحد يتعرّف على العملية التي تصفها. التوثيق يجب أن يطابق الواقع كي ينجو من التدقيق.
رأي مستقل في موقعك الحالي
التقييمات الداخلية متساهلة بطبعها. تحليل الفجوة من الخارج يخبرك بالجزء غير المريح مبكراً، بينما إصلاحه ما زال رخيصاً.
مسار عليه تاريخ واقعي
معرفة ما يمكن ضغطه وما لا يمكن هي الفرق بين اللحاق بموعد المناقصة وتفويته.
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ما الذي يمنحك إياه DR Plan
Certification is a commercial decision before it is a technical one. This is where the return usually shows up.
Systems Back in Order
Defined recovery time and recovery point objectives per application mean technology teams restore what the business needs first, in sequence.
Backups Proven, Not Assumed
Rehearsed restores expose corrupt media, expired licences and missing credentials while it is still an exercise rather than an outage.
Ransomware Recovery Option
Isolated and tested recovery copies give you a genuine alternative to paying, which is the only real negotiating position available.
Standby Capacity Costed
Documented architecture shows how much failover capacity you actually need, avoiding both wasted spend and a very unpleasant surprise.
القطاعات التي ينطبق عليها DR Plan
Open a sector to see every standard it is usually asked for.
Have a tender document or buyer requirement on DR Plan to send us?
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اطّلع على هيكل النظام قبل أن تلتزم
هذه هي مجموعة الوثائق نفسها التي ستستلمها، لا عيّنة عامة. افتحها، واقرأ ما بداخلها، واسأل عمّا لا يتضح.
DR Plan بالتفصيل
Getting critical systems back when the primary site is gone
A disaster recovery plan sets out how technology services are restored after a disruptive event: a data centre outage, a ransomware encryption event, a fire, a flood, a failed migration or the loss of a cloud region. It works from two numbers per service. The recovery time objective is how long restoration may take, and the recovery point objective is how much data you can afford to lose. Everything else in the plan follows from those two figures.
Plans are demanded by customers in contract schedules, by auditors working to ISO 27001 and ISO 22301, by banking and insurance supervisors, and by insurers. They also get written after a near miss. Most organisations have backups and believe they have a plan. The gap between the two is discovered during the first honest test, often as a restore that works alongside an application that will not start without a licence server nobody backed up.
Recovery objectives, runbooks and a test that is allowed to fail
We start from the business side, taking service criticality and agreeing objectives with the people who own the process rather than with the infrastructure team alone. Then we map dependencies for each critical service: servers, databases, storage, network paths, identity, certificates, licences, integrations and the third parties hosting part of it. Dependency mapping is where the surprises live, because services fail on the component nobody thought to list. Existing backup and replication design is then tested against the objectives.
The plan is written as runbooks: declaration criteria and who holds authority to invoke, notification trees, the order in which systems come back, step by step technical procedures, fallback if a step fails, data validation before users return, and the route back to normal running once the primary is restored. Then we test it. A tabletop exercise first, then a technical restore of at least one critical service, with the failures documented rather than quietly fixed.
A plan the on call engineer can follow at three in the morning
You receive the recovery objectives agreed and signed off, dependency maps, technical runbooks, contact and escalation lists, invocation and communication procedures, a test schedule with report formats, and a maintenance routine so the plan changes when the estate changes. Documents are written to be used under pressure: short steps, named systems, no assumed knowledge, and offline or printed copies, since a plan stored only on the system that has just failed is not a plan at all.
The gain is confidence you can evidence. Recovery times stop being guesses and become numbers you have measured under test conditions. Gaps found in testing, such as unlicensed standby instances or credentials held by one person on leave, get fixed while fixing them is still cheap. And when something does go wrong, the first hour is spent executing instead of deciding, which is where most avoidable downtime in a real incident is lost.
الطريق إلى شهادة DR Plan
- 1Gap analysis
- 2Documentation
- 3Training
- 4Implementation
- 5Internal audits
- 6Closure of gaps
- 7Management review
- 8Certification audit
- 9Surveillance audits
Would half an hour on DR Plan with a consultant be useful?
أكثر ما يُسأل عن DR Plan
What does DR Plan actually require from us?
You will need a defined scope, documentation that reflects actual practice rather than intent, evidence the system has been operating for a reasonable period, trained staff, and at least one internal audit and management review on file.
How long does DR Plan take?
Most DR Plan projects run three months or so. The single biggest variable is not the standard, it is how fast your team can be freed up for training and internal audit alongside their normal work.
Do you issue the DR Plan certificate yourselves?
No, and no consultant should. The certificate comes from an independent accredited certification body after their own audit. We prepare you to pass it and we are there on the day to close findings. That separation is exactly what makes the certificate worth holding.
How is DR Plan consultancy priced?
It depends on your headcount, how many sites are in scope and how much of a system already exists, so we quote after a short conversation rather than publishing a figure that would be wrong for most readers. Scope, timeline and fees come to you in writing first.
Which industries need DR Plan?
We map DR Plan to 4 sectors and it sits in our استمرارية الأعمال practice. Organisations usually arrive because a specific buyer, regulator or tender committee has asked. Tell us who is asking and we will confirm whether this is the standard that satisfies them.
Can you work remotely, or do you need to be on site?
Remote delivery covers most of a DR Plan project comfortably. We recommend onsite presence for the initial assessment and for the certification audit, where being in the room genuinely changes the outcome.
Need a fast steer on DR Plan before your next meeting?
مستعد للبدء في DR Plan؟
Book a short session and we will tell you what is involved, how long it takes and what it costs.