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Disaster Recovery (BCDR) —
Westchester, NY

When a server fails, a ransomware attack hits, or a storm knocks out your office — your business continuity plan determines whether you're back online in hours or out of business for days. Corstar builds and tests real recovery plans for Westchester businesses.

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Why It Matters

Downtime Is More Expensive Than You Think

Small and mid-size businesses are not immune to the kinds of disruptions that make headlines at large companies. Ransomware attacks have shut down law firms, medical practices, and manufacturers across Westchester County. Hardware failures, power outages, and office floods happen to businesses of every size.

The difference between a business that survives a major IT disruption and one that doesn't often comes down to one thing: whether it had a tested recovery plan in place before the disruption happened.

Business continuity planning isn't just about backup tapes. It's about defining how your business operates when your primary systems are unavailable — and proving, through regular testing, that your recovery procedures actually work.

60%
of SMBs that suffer major data loss close within 6 months
30min
target RTO for most Westchester business clients

Threats We Plan For

Ransomware Attack

Cryptolocker and similar attacks encrypt your files and demand payment. Your recovery plan determines whether you negotiate with criminals or restore from clean backups.

Server or Hardware Failure

Drive failures, server crashes, and RAID array failures happen. How fast you recover depends on your backup architecture and recovery procedures.

Natural Disaster or Power Outage

Westchester experiences hurricanes, ice storms, and flooding. Businesses with cloud-based continuity plans can operate from anywhere during an office outage.

Human Error or Accidental Deletion

Accidental file deletion and misconfigured changes are the most common data loss events. Versioned backups and granular recovery tools make recovery fast and complete.

Our BCP Services

Disaster Recovery (BCDR) — What We Build

BCP Assessment

We document your current environment, identify single points of failure, define your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and map dependencies between systems.

Backup Architecture

Implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy: three copies of data, on two different media, with one off-site. Cloud-based, immutable backups that ransomware cannot encrypt.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Step-by-step recovery runbooks for each major system. Who does what, in what order, with which credentials — documented before the disaster, not during it.

Recovery Testing

We verify that your backups actually restore. Many businesses discover their backup solution hasn't worked correctly for months — only when they need it. We test quarterly.

Cloud Continuity

Cloud-based workloads and Azure Virtual Desktop allow your team to work from anywhere when your office is inaccessible. We design and test these continuity scenarios.

Communication Plan

Who contacts clients? Who notifies staff? What's the escalation chain? We document the human side of a disaster — not just the technical recovery steps.

Included in Managed IT

Backup & Recovery — Built Into Every Plan

Business continuity tools are not an optional add-on at Corstar. Every managed IT client receives automated backup, off-site storage, and regular recovery testing as part of their plan.

For clients who need more — documented BCP plans, tabletop exercises, compliance documentation for insurance or audits — we offer expanded business continuity services.

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Backup Included in Every Managed IT Plan

  • Daily automated backups of servers and workstations
  • Microsoft 365 backup — email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams
  • Off-site, encrypted cloud storage
  • Immutable backups — ransomware cannot delete or encrypt them
  • Quarterly recovery testing with documented results
  • RTO and RPO defined and reviewed annually
Common Questions

Disaster Recovery (BCDR) FAQs

A disaster recovery (DR) plan focuses specifically on restoring your IT systems after a failure — servers, data, and applications. A business continuity plan (BCP) is broader: it covers how your entire business continues to operate during and after a disruption, including HR, communications, client notifications, and operational procedures — not just the technology. A complete BCP includes a DR plan as one component.
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how quickly your business needs to be operational after a disruption — for example, "we must be back online within 4 hours." RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data loss is acceptable — for example, "we cannot lose more than 1 hour of data." Defining your RTO and RPO drives every backup and recovery architecture decision. We help you establish these targets based on your business requirements and budget.
Yes — increasingly, cyber insurance carriers require documented business continuity and disaster recovery plans as a condition of coverage. Underwriters also look for evidence that backups are tested regularly, that MFA is enforced, and that a written incident response plan exists. Our business continuity services produce the documentation and evidence that insurance applications and audits require. Contact us if you are applying for or renewing cyber insurance.

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