Most DR plans are partial — not because organizations don’t care, but because conventional pricing makes full coverage unaffordable. This handbook makes the economic case for changing that.
Across 12 chapters and three frameworks, it explains why readiness and capacity are different purchases, how the consequence test derives RPO and RTO from business impact rather than infrastructure capability, why untested DR is an assumption, and how ransomware changed what recovery actually means.
The continuity maturity model — five levels from Documented to Resilient — gives teams a clear measure of where they are and what is keeping them there.
