Backup & Cyber-Resilience

Can you actually recover?

Most businesses have backups. Far fewer have ever tested a restore — and almost none have tried it after the kind of ransomware attack that also encrypts the backup drive sitting on the same network. Recovery is the part that actually saves you, and it is the part nobody checks until the worst day.

We run backup and cyber-resilience for businesses across the New York Metro and the Puget Sound, and we build for the moment you have to recover, not just the moment you back up: tested restores, copies ransomware can't reach, and the two layers most businesses forget — their cloud data and their endpoints. Insurers have noticed. Recoverability is now audited directly, which connects this work straight to your compliance and cyber-insurance readiness.

Recovery you can actually prove

A backup is a promise. A tested restore is proof.

We schedule and rehearse the restores themselves, and keep copies isolated from your network so a ransomware hit can't take them down with everything else. When something goes wrong, the recovery follows a procedure we have already run — against a recovery time you agreed to in advance — instead of becoming a hope and a very long night.

What that looks like in practice:

• Full system-image, file, and folder backups across Windows, Linux, and virtualized environments.
• Isolated, immutable copies — stored offsite and off-network, so ransomware can encrypt your production data but not your lifeline.
• Scheduled test restores against agreed recovery-time and recovery-point targets, so the restore is proven, not assumed.
• A documented recovery runbook — the bad day follows a plan instead of improvisation.

The backup most businesses don't have: your cloud data

Here is the gap that catches owners off guard: Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace don't protect your data the way most people assume. They keep the service running. They don't save you from a deleted mailbox, a ransomware-encrypted SharePoint library, or the files that walk out the door when someone leaves.

We add an independent backup of your cloud environment, held separately from the provider, so your SaaS data is recoverable on your terms — not theirs.

What that covers:

• Independent backup of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace — mail, calendars, files, and sites.
• Ransomware rollback for cloud data — an encrypted or corrupted account can be restored to a clean point in time.
• Departed-employee data retention — access to a former employee's mailbox and files after they're deprovisioned, for as long as you need it.
• Granular, point-in-time restore — down to a specific item, folder, or day.

Resilience down to the device

Recovery isn't only about servers. The endpoint a ransomware payload lands on matters too. On supported business-class hardware, we use firmware-level resilience that can detect tampering and return a compromised machine to a known-good state — so a wiped or infected device doesn't become days of downtime while someone rebuilds it by hand.

This layer connects to the broader cyber-security picture: protection lowers the odds, resilience handles the times something gets through anyway. Together they satisfy what insurers and clients are now explicitly asking businesses to demonstrate.

• Firmware-level self-healing on supported hardware — detects tampering and recovers automatically.
• Fast re-provisioning — lost or wiped machines return to service quickly, with zero-touch device setup on supported platforms.
• Documented proof of recoverability — the kind of evidence compliance and cyber-insurance audits are looking for.

The backup work, in detail

Backup and recovery isn't one thing — it's a handful of specific disciplines that have to work in concert. Here's how we handle each:

What ties this together

Good backup architecture has three moving parts that have to work in concert: what you protect (servers, workstations, cloud data, and endpoints), how you store it (isolated, immutable, off-network), and whether you can use it (tested restores, documented runbooks, agreed recovery targets).

Most small-business backup setups cover only the first. The second and third are where the difference between "we have backups" and "we recovered in four hours" lives.

We design and operate all three layers — and we test them. If you're not sure whether your current backup would actually hold up, that's the fastest question we can answer.