Backup & Business Resilience

Recovery that is tested and documented — because a backup nobody has restored is an assumption, not a plan, and BoT increasingly expects the difference to be provable.

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The business problem

Why this matters

Most organizations have backups. Far fewer have ever restored from them. A backup that has never been tested is an assumption, not a protection.

The risk of doing nothing

  • Backups run for months while silently failing.
  • Backup storage sits on the same network the attacker reaches first.
  • Nobody knows which system to restore first, or who decides.
  • Recovery takes days because there is no documented procedure.

Our approach

How the work runs

  1. 01

    Define

    Agree recovery time and recovery point targets per system with the business.

  2. 02

    Design

    Build backup layers, including offsite and immutable copies.

  3. 03

    Test

    Perform real restores and record how long each takes.

  4. 04

    Document

    Deliver a runbook that names systems, order, and decision owners.

Expected business outcomes

What changes after this work

  • A recovery time you can state with confidence
  • Verified, restorable backups
  • Protection against ransomware and deletion
  • A plan your team can execute under pressure

Frequently asked questions

Questions we are asked first

What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is the tested plan and infrastructure that gets your business operating again. You need both.
How often should recovery be tested?
At least twice a year for critical systems, and after any significant infrastructure change.
Does this protect us against ransomware?
Immutable and offsite copies mean encrypted production data does not mean lost data. Combined with segmentation, it substantially reduces the impact.

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Next step

Book a BoT Cybersecurity & Compliance Readiness Assessment

A structured review of your network, servers, identity, backup, and cloud exposure against the Bank of Tanzania guidelines. You receive a written report: what you have, where the gaps are, and what to close first.