Revolutionary Security Blog Why You Need to Test Your Backup & Recovery Process

Which sounds better after a disaster: a social media post to customers that your systems will be back up “soon” or you will be back online no later than 10AM? If you don’t regularly test your backup and recovery process, you have no idea if your backups actually work or how long it will take to restore your systems. Are you willing to take that chance? Let’s say your infrastructure team is responsible for developing a backup, restore, and recovery process. Since your infrastructure has never had a problem, the same must hold true for the backups, right? This is faulty logic.