Identify Critical Functions and Dependencies
We conduct a Business Impact Analysis to define what matters most, how long it can be down, and what needs to recover first. This becomes the foundation for all continuity and recovery decisions.
Business Resilience Solutions
Recover critical operations faster when disruption hits.
Backups alone do not guarantee recovery. Business Resilience Solutions aligns business priorities, recovery planning, and modern backup strategies so you can respond to disruption with clarity, restore operations quickly, and minimize business impact.
What We Deliver
Blue Mantis aligns business priorities, recovery planning, and backup operations into a unified resilience program.
Business Impact Analysis
Blue Mantis identifies critical business functions, dependencies, and acceptable downtime thresholds. We establish the foundation for all continuity and recovery decisions.
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Critical function identification: Defines systems and processes essential to business operations.
Critical function identification: Defines systems and processes essential to business operations.
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Application dependency mapping: Identifies upstream and downstream dependencies affecting recovery.
Application dependency mapping: Identifies upstream and downstream dependencies affecting recovery.
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Recovery priority documentation: Creates a clear order of operations for restoring business functions.
Recovery priority documentation: Creates a clear order of operations for restoring business functions.
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Runbook creation and testing: Documents step-by-step recovery procedures and validates them before you need them.
Runbook creation and testing: Documents step-by-step recovery procedures and validates them before you need them.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning
Blue Mantis develops and validates plans that ensure continuity of operations and recovery of systems during disruptive events. We provide clear guidance for teams under pressure.
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Continuity and recovery plan development: Defines response, recovery, and communication workflows.
Continuity and recovery plan development: Defines response, recovery, and communication workflows.
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Roles and escalation model definition: Establishes responsibility across teams and leadership.
Roles and escalation model definition: Establishes responsibility across teams and leadership.
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Scenario-based testing and exercises: Validates plans against ransomware, outages, and failures.
Scenario-based testing and exercises: Validates plans against ransomware, outages, and failures.
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Integration with security and IT operations: Ensures alignment between response plans and existing workflows.
Integration with security and IT operations: Ensures alignment between response plans and existing workflows.
Immutable Backup Design & Implementation
Blue Mantis designs backup architectures that protect recovery data from ransomware, deletion, and unauthorized modification. We ensure recovery points remain intact during attacks.
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Immutable backup architecture design: Prevents alteration or deletion of backup data.
Immutable backup architecture design: Prevents alteration or deletion of backup data.
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Ransomware-resilient data protection: Ensures recovery points are protected from compromise.
Ransomware-resilient data protection: Ensures recovery points are protected from compromise.
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Secure storage and retention strategy: Defines where and how data is protected and maintained.
Secure storage and retention strategy: Defines where and how data is protected and maintained.
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Recovery validation and testing: Confirms backups can be restored when needed.
Recovery validation and testing: Confirms backups can be restored when needed.
Managed Backup Services
Let Blue Mantis manage your backups for you. We provide ongoing monitoring and management of backup environments built on industry-leading technology, so recovery readiness is consistently maintained without adding to your team's workload.
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Continuous backup monitoring: Tracks job success, failures, and anomalies across your environment.
Continuous backup monitoring: Tracks job success, failures, and anomalies across your environment.
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Industry-leading backup technology: Built on Veeam, HPE Zerto, HYCU, Rubrik, and Commvault.
Industry-leading backup technology: Built on Veeam, HPE Zerto, HYCU, Rubrik, and Commvault.
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Cloud-backed protection: Workload and Microsoft 365 backup delivered through Veeam + Wasabi and HYCU + Wasabi or Cloud Storage.
Cloud-backed protection: Workload and Microsoft 365 backup delivered through Veeam + Wasabi and HYCU + Wasabi or Cloud Storage.
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Quarterly policy review: Data protection policies are reviewed quarterly with recommendations to close gaps.
Quarterly policy review: Data protection policies are reviewed quarterly with recommendations to close gaps.
What happens at each step
How Business Resilience Planning Works
Develop and Validate Continuity Plans
Business continuity and disaster recovery plans are built and tested against realistic scenarios. This ensures teams know what to do when disruption occurs, not just on paper.
Design and Implement Immutable Backups
Backup architecture is built to protect recovery data from ransomware, deletion, and tampering. This ensures you have clean recovery points when it matters most.
Manage Backups and Maintain Recovery Readiness
Ongoing monitoring, health checks, and retention management keep backup environments operating correctly. This removes the operational burden from your internal team.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery?
Business continuity focuses on keeping critical operations running during a disruption. Disaster recovery focuses on restoring systems and data after an incident. Both are needed, and they work together — continuity keeps the business functioning while recovery brings systems back online.
How often should we test and update our continuity and recovery plans?
We recommend testing critical systems quarterly and all protected workloads annually. Blue Mantis includes simulations and live failover testing as part of this cadence, validating backup performance under real recovery conditions and surfacing gaps before an actual disaster strikes.
Why do we need a Business Impact Analysis before planning?
A BIA identifies which systems and functions are most critical, how long they can be unavailable, and what the downstream impact of failure looks like. Without it, recovery plans are built on assumptions rather than actual business priorities — which leads to wrong decisions under pressure.
What makes a backup immutable?
Immutable backups cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted once written — even by an administrator. This protects recovery data from ransomware attacks that specifically target backups to eliminate recovery options. Without immutability, backups can be compromised along with the rest of the environment.
How often should continuity and recovery plans be tested?
At minimum, plans should be tested annually and after any significant change to the environment, personnel, or business operations. Tabletop exercises validate decision-making and communication while technical recovery tests confirm systems can actually be restored within required timeframes.
What does managed backup include?
Managed backup includes continuous monitoring of backup jobs, health and performance checks, retention management, and operational support. The goal is to ensure backups are consistently running correctly and that recovery is actually possible when needed — not just assumed.
Know exactly how your business will recover before disruption hits.
We will identify your most critical systems, define recovery priorities, and evaluate how well your current backup and continuity plans perform under real conditions. You leave with a clear path to strengthen resilience and reduce downtime risk.
