// AUDIT_05 – Free Assessment

Downtime Defence
Audit

How would your organisation hold up if a region went down this afternoon? Twenty-seven questions across five areas – disaster recovery, resilience, backups, incident response, and monitoring – give you an honest read on whether you'd recover in minutes or make the news. You choose which areas to assess, and you get a personalised report written against your answers.

27
Questions across five areas
5
Areas – assess any or all
3
Minutes to complete

// What You Get

Know your weak links
before the outage does.

// 01

Resilience Scorecard

A maturity level for each area you assess, from Ad hoc to Optimised, with a traffic-light read on where you stand. Skip an area and it stays honestly unscored – no padding, no vanity numbers.

// 02

Risk Points & Critical Flags

Your overall resilience classification, the specific risk points your answers raise, what's already working, and the recommendations that follow – keyed to what you told us, not generic advice from a template.

// 03

Personalised Report

A short report written against your individual answers: where the risk sits, what an outage would actually cost you, and what to do in the next 90 days. On screen the moment it's ready, and emailed to your inbox with a branded PDF.


// The Five Areas

What the audit
covers.

Resilience fails at the weakest link. A tested DR plan means little if the backups don't restore; redundant infrastructure means little if nobody notices the failure. The audit reads all five areas – and lets you focus on the ones that matter to you right now.

Disaster Recovery Planning 5 questions

Evaluating your disaster recovery strategy, business continuity plans, and recovery objectives.

Cloud Resilience & Redundancy 5 questions

Assessing your infrastructure redundancy, failover capabilities, and resilience testing practices.

Backup & Data Protection 6 questions

Analysing your backup frequency, testing procedures, retention policies, and ransomware protection.

Incident Response & Crisis Management 5 questions

Reviewing your incident response plans, communication strategies, and post-incident processes.

Monitoring & Alerting 6 questions

Exploring your monitoring coverage, alerting quality, observability, and dependency tracking.


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// FAQ

Frequently
asked questions.

Common questions we get from senior technology leaders evaluating this work. Direct answers, no hedging. Open one to read in full.

Five areas that decide whether an outage is an incident or a headline: Disaster Recovery Planning (your recovery plans, RTO/RPO targets, and testing), Cloud Resilience & Redundancy (regions, failover, and single points of failure), Backup & Data Protection (frequency, restoration testing, and ransomware protection), Incident Response & Crisis Management (plans, on-call, and postmortems), and Monitoring & Alerting (coverage, observability, and dependency tracking). You get a maturity score and specific recommendations for each area you assess.

No. You choose which of the five areas to assess – all of them for the full picture, or just the ones on your mind right now. Skipped areas stay honestly unscored rather than dragging your result down, and you can cover them on a retake; your results page will show what changed since last time.

Your responses are stored securely on our own infrastructure – no third-party assessment platform sits in the middle. We use them only to generate your report and never share them. Reply to any email from us and we’ll delete your data.

Then the audit works as a validation pass. A documented plan and a tested plan are different things, and the gap between them only shows up mid-incident. Organisations with mature DR still find blind spots – usually in backup restoration testing, dependency mapping, or alert quality – and those are exactly what the audit surfaces.

About three minutes for all five areas – 27 multiple-choice questions, no free-text essays unless you choose the ‘Other’ option to tell us how something actually works. Assess fewer areas and it’s quicker still. Your scorecard appears immediately, and the personalised report takes a few seconds more.

IT leaders, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, CTOs – anyone responsible for infrastructure reliability and business continuity. For the most accurate read, it’s best completed by someone with visibility of how incidents are actually handled, not just how the runbook says they should be.

You see your results straight away: a maturity level for every area you assessed, your overall resilience classification, and the risk points and recommendations your answers raise. A personalised report – written against your specific responses – follows on screen and by email, with a PDF you can share internally. If you want to talk it through, a senior practitioner will walk you through the results. No follow-up unless you ask for it.


// Get in touch

Want to talk through
what your audit surfaces?

Our senior practitioners are happy to walk through your results and give you a direct view on priorities – no pitch, no obligation. One conversation.