Practice Area // IT Disaster Recovery

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Hi, I’m Barry Moore, Principal, Business Continuity and Technology Resilience at Trace Associates Inc. (Trace). At Trace, IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) is a key solution within our Organizational Resilience practice, part of our broader Management Consulting services. Our work empowers organizations to prepare for, withstand, and recover from serious IT disruptions. This ensures our clients can protect the systems, data, and technology that keep their businesses running.

Technology is the backbone of modern organizations. We work with organizations across Canada to build practical, resilient, and scalable ITDR capabilities that safeguard operational continuity, minimizing disruptions and maximising our clients’ ability to continue offering services to their customers. Trace’s ITDR services help ensure critical systems can continue to operate or be quickly restored when faced with outages, cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, or natural disasters.

ITDR Strategy and
Roadmap Development

  • Current-state disaster recovery maturity assessment

  • Business-driven disaster recovery strategy development

  • Recovery capability gap analysis

  • Disaster recovery governance framework design

Business Impact Analysis

  • Critical business process identification

  • Application criticality assessment

  • Dependency mapping

  • Recovery objective determination

Risk Assessment and
Threat Analysis

  • Technology risk assessment

  • Cyber resilience assessment

  • Single point of failure analysis

  • Third-party dependency assessment

Disaster Recovery Plan
Development

  • Creation of disaster recovery policies and standards

  • Recovery playbook development

  • Escalation matrix development

  • Crisis management procedures

Recovery Architecture
Design

  • Disaster recovery architecture design

  • Back-up architecture design

  • On-prem / cloud recovery strategy design

  • Cyber recovery design

Backup and Data
Protection Consulting

  • Backup strategy review/development

  • Backup procedure alignment/optimization

  • Backup data retention policy review

  • Data classification/protection assessment

Disaster Recovery
Testing Services

  • Exercise strategy and planning

  • Tabletop exercise facilitation

  • Technical recovery testing

  • Post-exercise reviews

Disaster Recovery
Program Governance

  • Disaster recovery program management

  • Disaster recovery program policy development

  • Steering committee organization

  • KPI and metric development

Resilience and Continuity
Integration

  • Integration with business continuity management

  • Operational resilience frameworks

  • Critical service mapping

  • Alignment with emergency/risk management and crisis communications

Managed Disaster Recovery
Advisory Services

  • Annual disaster recovery program reviews

  • Quarterly readiness assessments

  • Exercise/testing coordination

  • Continuous improvement programs

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