When something goes wrong, recovery is what matters
Backups are easy to ignore while everything is working. Their value becomes very clear the moment critical files disappear, infrastructure fails or a cyber incident disrupts your business.
Bluefire designs and manages backup and disaster recovery solutions around the systems your organisation cannot afford to lose. The objective isn't simply to create copies of data — it's to give your business a practical path back to operation when something goes wrong.
Identify the systems and information the business cannot afford to lose.
Protected copies created on a schedule that matches how your data changes.
Restore systems and information in the order the business needs them.
The business returns to operation, not just the data to storage.
A backup is a copy of your data. A disaster recovery plan is how you get your business running again.
Having a backup isn't the same as being able to recover
Many businesses assume their data is protected simply because a backup system exists. But when did it last complete successfully? What exactly is being protected? How quickly could that information be restored? And who is responsible for recovery?
Bluefire approaches backup as part of a wider business continuity strategy, considering what needs to be protected, how frequently it should be backed up and what needs to happen when recovery becomes necessary.
Protect important business information against loss.
Maintain visibility over the status of managed backup processes.
Establish how systems and data should be recovered following an incident.
Prioritise the technology your organisation needs to resume operation.
Data loss doesn't always look like a failed hard drive
A recovery event can begin with something as simple as an employee accidentally deleting a file or as serious as a cyber incident affecting multiple business systems.
Storage and physical equipment eventually fail.
Files can be accidentally deleted, overwritten or changed.
Malware and ransomware can disrupt access to systems and information.
Applications and databases can become damaged or corrupted.
Business equipment can be lost, stolen or physically damaged.
Larger incidents can affect an entire office or infrastructure location.
Not everything needs to come back at the same time
When a serious outage occurs, recovery should follow the priorities of your business.
Bluefire works with organisations to identify which systems are most important and how quickly they need to be restored. This allows the recovery strategy to focus investment and effort where downtime would have the greatest impact.
Systems required to operate the business.
Services employees need shortly after operations resume.
Systems that can tolerate a longer recovery period.
A failed backup shouldn't stay unnoticed
A backup strategy is only useful if backups are actually completing successfully.
Bluefire can monitor managed backup environments and investigate failures or other issues that could affect the ability to recover protected information.
Cloud doesn't automatically mean backed up
Cloud platforms provide resilient infrastructure, but businesses still need to consider how important cloud-hosted information fits within their broader backup and retention requirements.
Bluefire can assess the information your organisation stores across Microsoft 365 and determine whether additional protection is appropriate for your business requirements.
The worst time to decide how your organisation will recover from an outage is while the outage is happening. Bluefire helps establish the technology, responsibilities and priorities beforehand, giving your business a defined recovery approach rather than simply hoping that a backup exists when it is needed.
Your recovery strategy is part of your cybersecurity strategy
Preventing cyber incidents is important, but no security control can guarantee that an organisation will never experience one.
A well-designed recovery strategy provides another layer of resilience by giving the business a way to restore important systems and information following a serious security event.
Layered controls across users, devices, email, identity and network.
A defined path back to operation when prevention isn't enough.
Backup designed around recovery
The questions we get asked most
What's the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
How often should our business data be backed up?
Does Microsoft 365 need a backup strategy?
Can Bluefire monitor our backups?
Can backups protect us from ransomware?
How quickly can our systems be recovered?
Find out how prepared your business really is
We'll review what you're currently backing up, identify gaps and help determine how your organisation would recover if critical systems or information became unavailable.