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Financial Services · Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup & Disaster Recovery for Financial Services Firms
99%+
Daily backup success rate
<8 hrs
Recovery time objective (RTO)
<1 hr
Recovery point objective (RPO)
24/7
Backup monitoring & alerting
Achieve guaranteed business continuity with automated backups, tested disaster recovery procedures, and comprehensive protection against ransomware, data loss, and operational disruption aligned to APRA CPS 230.
Untested backups that may be corrupted or incomplete
No documented recovery plan or tested procedures
Single points of failure in backup infrastructure
APRA CPS 230 business continuity requirements unmet
Your Recovery Targets
APRA CPS 230 aligned
Recovery Time Objective
Max downtime before systems restored <8 hrs
Max downtime before systems restored <8 hrs
Recovery Point Objective
Max acceptable data loss window <1 hr
Max acceptable data loss window <1 hr
Backup Test Frequency
APRA minimum recommendation Quarterly
APRA minimum recommendation Quarterly
Backup Success Rate
Daily automated verification 99%+
Daily automated verification 99%+
Immutable
Ransomware-proof backup copies
3-2-1
Rule: 3 copies, 2 media, 1 offsite
CPS 230
APRA operational resilience compliance
Free
Resilience assessment with gap report
Backup & Recovery Services
Enterprise-Grade Data Protection & Resilience
Comprehensive backup and disaster recovery services covering every layer of your financial services IT environment — from client data through to platform and compliance documentation.
Automated Cloud Backup
Continuous, automated backups of all critical systems — Microsoft 365 (Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams), servers, and SaaS platforms — to redundant cloud repositories with encryption, version control, and 99%+ daily success rate monitoring.
M365 + Server + SaaS
Disaster Recovery Planning
Comprehensive documentation of recovery procedures, runbooks, contact lists, and communication protocols for all disaster scenarios — giving your team a clear, tested plan to follow when it matters most, not a document that's never been opened.
APRA CPS 230 Aligned
Business Continuity Testing
Regular tabletop exercises and full disaster recovery drills validating recovery procedures, achieving RTO/RPO targets, and ensuring your team can actually execute the plan under pressure — not just on paper. Quarterly minimum per APRA guidance.
Quarterly Exercises
Ransomware Recovery
Immutable, air-gapped backups that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete — even with full access to production systems. Rapid isolation protocols and tested recovery procedures ensure faster restoration from clean backups than paying any ransom demand.
Immutable + Air-Gapped
APRA CPS 230 Documentation
Compliance documentation demonstrating business continuity readiness, recovery capabilities, and resilience measures aligned to APRA operational resilience requirements — including the 72-hour ransomware reporting rule under the Cyber Security Act 2024.
Audit-Ready
24/7 Monitoring & Alerting
Continuous monitoring of backup integrity, storage status, and recovery readiness with real-time alerting on any failures detected — so issues are caught and resolved before a disaster turns incomplete backups into permanent data loss.
24/7 Continuous
We Serve
Resilience Solutions for Growing Financial Services Practices
Firms Under APRA Oversight
APRA-regulated businesses requiring formal business continuity plans, documented recovery capabilities, and operational resilience frameworks meeting CPS 230. We provide the documentation, testing program, and technical infrastructure needed for regulatory compliance — and can represent your BCP posture to auditors and regulators.
Growing Practices
Expanding advisory firms scaling operations and requiring resilience infrastructure to support growth and maintain service continuity as client numbers, staff, and data volumes increase. We scale backup infrastructure ahead of your growth trajectory — so resilience keeps pace with ambition, not as a reactive fix after an incident.
Multi-Office Operations
Distributed practices with multiple locations requiring coordinated backups, unified recovery procedures, and geographically redundant protection — ensuring a localised event at one office doesn't take down the entire firm's operations. A single recovery plan covers all sites with location-specific runbooks and team contacts.
Resilience Implementation
From Assessment to Continuous Recovery Readiness
Our methodology ensures your firm develops comprehensive, tested, and continuously maintained disaster recovery capabilities meeting APRA expectations — not just a one-time setup.
Audit
Comprehensive assessment of current backup infrastructure, recovery procedures, and resilience gaps against APRA CPS 230 requirements. We document what you have, what's missing, and what's at risk — producing a prioritised gap report with remediation roadmap.
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Design
Architecture of redundant backup systems, immutable storage, and recovery procedures meeting your RTO/RPO objectives. We design the solution before deploying — ensuring backup infrastructure, documentation, and testing programs are correctly specified for your firm's risk profile.
Implement
Deployment of automated backup infrastructure, documentation of recovery runbooks, and staff training on recovery procedures. We configure immutable backups, set up 24/7 monitoring, write the disaster recovery plan, and ensure your team knows exactly what to do when an incident occurs.
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Test & Maintain
Regular tabletop exercises and full recovery drills, procedure updates after infrastructure changes, and continuous monitoring ensuring recovery readiness and APRA compliance over time. We run quarterly tests, update documentation, and provide compliance reporting for every assessment cycle.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How often should we test disaster recovery procedures?
We recommend quarterly at minimum. APRA CPS 230 expects regular testing to validate recovery capabilities. Our standard program includes quarterly tabletop exercises covering different disaster scenarios; semi-annual full recovery drills testing actual data restoration; and annual comprehensive business continuity testing including multiple locations and full recovery team coordination. Each test should update procedures, validate RTO/RPO achievement, and identify improvement areas.
What's the difference between RTO and RPO?
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the target time to restore systems and resume operations after a disaster — typically 4–24 hours for financial services, depending on criticality. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the acceptable data loss — how far back to the most recent backup we can restore from. For critical systems we recommend RTO under 8 hours and RPO under 1 hour. Both must be documented in your disaster recovery plan and validated through regular testing to remain credible for APRA purposes.
How are backups protected against ransomware?
We implement multiple layers: immutable backups that cannot be deleted or encrypted by ransomware even with full access to backup systems; offline copies stored separately from production environments; encryption making backups unreadable without encryption keys; air-gapped backup appliances isolating data from networks; and strict access controls restricting who can modify backups. These layers combined ensure ransomware cannot destroy backup data even if it fully compromises production systems — making recovery from clean backups consistently faster than paying any demand.
What are our responsibilities vs. the backup provider's?
Your firm retains overall responsibility for business continuity and disaster recovery even when using managed backup services. Providers handle technical infrastructure and backup execution. Your firm must: document recovery procedures and RTO/RPO targets; maintain contact lists and recovery team assignments; conduct regular testing; update procedures after changes; maintain off-site backup copies; and verify backup integrity. We manage all of these responsibilities on your behalf — you retain oversight and APRA accountability, while we handle the operational execution.
How much does backup and disaster recovery cost?
Cost depends on data volume, backup frequency, retention requirements, and recovery objectives. Typical financial services practices invest $300–$2,000+ per month for comprehensive backup and disaster recovery — including infrastructure, cloud storage, testing services, and compliance documentation. This is consistently lower than the cost of recovering from actual data loss or ransomware. We provide detailed cost modelling during the audit phase with ROI analysis compared to potential loss scenarios for your specific firm size.
How do we prepare staff for a disaster recovery scenario?
Staff preparation is critical — the best technical backup infrastructure fails if the team doesn't know how to use it under pressure. We provide initial training on procedures and recovery expectations; tabletop exercise participation where teams walk through scenarios; full recovery drill participation for hands-on experience with actual restoration procedures; documentation review and sign-off; and annual refresher training. We identify key recovery team members, clarify roles, and ensure everyone knows exactly what to do — and when — during an actual incident.
Don't Wait for a Disaster
Implement Tested Disaster Recovery Today
Don't discover your backups don't work during an actual disaster. Build resilience now with automated backups, immutable ransomware protection, and continuously tested recovery procedures aligned to APRA CPS 230.