How Long Will Your Business Stay in Intensive Care?

When someone suffers a debilitating injury, the first thing they want to know is how soon they’ll be back on their feet. Following a cyberattack, a healthcare company’s IT team faces the same question, but with added urgency.

Every minute of downtime poses a critical risk to your organization’s sensitive data, reputation, and patients. What will your answer be?

In a recent blog, Rx for Cyber Threats, we discussed the importance for healthcare organizations of having a minimum viable recovery (MVR) strategy[DJ1]  – a business-first approach to restore the most critical services and functions for your core operations.

By prioritizing what matters most, you can recover more quickly, efficiently, and reliably. That’s especially important when lives are on the line.

But having a strategy is only the beginning. To protect your patients and your business, you also have to implement it effectively. That’s why Commvault offers a complimentaryMinimum Viability Self-Assessment to help determine how well you’re prepared to resume core operations following a disaster, how you compare with peer organizations, and what you can do to improve your MVR capability. 

Do You Know Where to Begin?

According to a recent GigaOm report, “Minimum Viable Recovery: Closing the Recovery Gap,” 54% of organizations lack confidence in their own recovery plans. The Commvault Minimum Viability Self-Assessment can help you understand your readiness across the analyst firm’s three pillars of a successful MVR implementation:

• Business-critical prioritization
• Measurable technical response
• Organizational recovery readiness

The first pillar focuses on identifying your most critical functions and mapping their technical dependencies. By setting priorities before an attack, you can move more quickly and effectively in an emergency. Your Minimum Viability Self-Assessment will help you determine how well you’ve laid this foundation and where additional clarity and alignment might be needed.

How Will You Proceed?

Once you’ve mapped out your MVR strategy, the next step is to confirm that you are prepared to execute it effectively. Your technical response will depend on secure backups for critical systems and data, protection for the systems used for recovery, accurate threat detection and identification, clean infrastructure within which to rebuild systems, and other capabilities.

Your Minimum Viability Self-Assessment will help you understand whether you have the technical and organizational capability to not only stop the current attack, but also recover compromised data, rebuild damaged systems, and prevent similar attacks in the future. 

Is Your Organization Ready?

The third pillar of the GigaOm model focuses on continuous recovery readiness. With healthcare companies among the most frequent targets for cybercriminals, it would be reasonable to assume that you’ll be attacked at some point and prepare accordingly.

Your Minimum Viability Self-Assessment is designed to address key elements of organizational readiness, from well-defined recovery roles, responsibilities, and procedures to clear SLAs for critical workloads. You’ll also learn whether your testing practices are sufficient to keep your plan up to date and your team ready for anything.

Your Lab Results Are Waiting …

At the end of your Minimum Viability Self-Assessment, you’ll receive a detailed report analyzing your recovery readiness across key elements of minimum viability, a high-level overview comparing your MVR strategy to your peers, and actionable recommendations to speed your response to the next disaster.

Don’t wait until you’re under attack to discover how well you’re prepared to recover. Begin your Minimum Viability Self-Assessment now to enable uninterrupted care for your patients and resilience for your business.