A BCDR Strategy to ensure your company’s digital resilience

A BCDR Strategy to ensure your company’s digital resilience

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In 2023, 49% of French organizations were subject to a successful cyberattack. In this context, it is important to establish a BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) strategy, which intends to ensure the continuity of your business and to restore your systems in the event of a major incident.

What are the benefits of BCDR for your organization, and what challenges must be overcome during its implementation ?

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The benefits of BCDR

As the name suggests, BCDR combines two approaches :

    Business Continuity plan

    • It includes all measures that allow your company to maintain critical operations even if your IT system is impacted. These measures enable your teams to remain operational and limit the consequences of the incident. This approach is formalized in a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

    Disaster Recovery plan

    • The aim of this approach is to restore your company's critical functions as quickly and smoothly as possible in case of an incident. The undertaken actions include data recovery and network infrastructure restoration. This approach is formalized in both a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and an IT Recovery Plan (ITRP).

For BCDR to be effective, it must anticipate all potential scenarios that could disrupt or slow down your operations, such as cyberattacks, server failures, or natural disasters, and plan an appropriate response for each.

BCDR achieves several objectives :

  • Preventing a total business shutdown
  • Maintaining essential operations and functions
  • Ensuring a quick return to normalcy and system availability
  • Minimizing financial losses caused by the incident
  • Strengthening organizational resilience
  • Preventing permanent data loss or alteration

Moreover, many regulatory frameworks impose requirements for business continuity and system resilience. For example, Article 32 of the GDPR lays down the obligation to implement measures "to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or a technical incident.". Thus, BCDR plays a role in regulatory compliance as well.

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BCDR challenges for your organization

Your organization may face several challenges when implementing BCDR :
  • Complex infrastructure, characterized by a large number of applications, diverse databases, on-premises servers, and cloud environments
  • Cost issues, related to the design of business continuity and recovery plans, as well as the adoption of backup tools, etc.
  • Hybrid environment, combining on-premises servers and cloud services adds an extra layer of complexity
  • Backup and Data Recovery Management, involving both a backup policy and copies on-site and in the cloud

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Cloud as a key enabler for BCDR

The cloud facilitates business continuity and disaster recovery planning on multiple levels :

  • Scalability (offering extensibility, evolutivity, and adaptability) : In the event of an incident, a cloud infrastructure is easy to scale up and allow your company to recover large volumes of data while ensuring the execution of critical processes
  • Geographic Replication : Cloud providers have data centers worldwide, enabling data replication across multiple distant sites for greater resilience
  • Rapid Data and Application Recovery : Some cloud solutions accelerate disaster recovery through their DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) model, which automates system restoration

  • Cost Reduction : Using the cloud helps avoid costs linked to physical equipment (purchasing backup servers, maintenance, etc.)

The three main hyperscalers (Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure) offer dedicated BCDR solutions.

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Logigroup supports you in implementing your BCDR

Do you want to strengthen your organization’s IT resilience ?
Logigroup assists you in designing your BCDR :

  • Developing your BCP, DRP, and ITRP, with measures and best practices to ensure the continuity of critical operations and rapid recovery
  • Outlining a framework of critical activities and systems
  • Identifying infrastructure’s weaknesses and proposing solutions
  • Suggesting a hybrid infrastructure tailored to your organization's needs to ensure business continuity
  • Integrating BCDR solutions from AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, and Google Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
  • Conducting business continuity and recovery tests to validate BCDR effectiveness
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