How to Build a Disaster Recovery Strategy

Ransomware, accidental deletion, identity compromise, and tenant-wide outages can disrupt operations without warning. When they do, recovery isn’t just about having backups — it's about restoring the right workloads in the right order, fast enough to keep the business running.

A modern disaster recovery strategy is designed to restore business operations, but most organizations are still focused primarily on protecting data. Native platform features help preserve data, but they aren’t built to restore operations at scale. As a result, many organizations can recover data but still struggle to resume critical business processes quickly and in the right sequence.

This cheat sheet gives IT and security leaders a clear, actionable framework for closing that gap and restoring business operations with confidence. Inside, you'll gain:

• A quick reference on the four incidents most likely to disrupt operations, and how a modern strategy plans for each.
• A clear framework to distinguish backup from true business recovery.
• A shared responsibility map that clarifies ownership across backup and recovery.
• A five-step approach to move from data protection to operational continuity.

Download the cheat sheet to build a recovery strategy that restores operations quickly and keeps your business moving.