FREE 3-MINUTE RECOVERY ASSESSMENT

Could you prove recovery works, not just that backups exist?

Answer 10 practical questions to evaluate your backup governance, restore testing, recovery evidence, visibility and operational ownership.

10 questions · Approximately 3 minutes · Immediate results

Opens in a focused modal. No personal details are needed to see your result.

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What the assessment evaluates

  • Governance

    Policies, retention rules, and accountability that make backup a managed practice, not an assumption.

  • Restore testing

    How often restores are actually tested, for which systems, and whether results are recorded.

  • Recovery evidence

    Whether you can show auditors, customers, or leadership that recovery has been proven.

  • Visibility

    Monitoring, alerting, and reporting that tell you backup health before someone else does.

  • Ownership

    Named owners, clear escalation, and the skills to run recovery under real pressure.

Why recovery confidence breaks down

Backups alone do not guarantee recovery. These are the gaps that quietly undermine confidence, until the moment someone asks for proof.

  • Untested restores

    Backups complete, but nobody has proven that a critical system can be brought back.

  • Missing evidence

    Logs exist, but there is no evidence pack an auditor or customer would accept.

  • Partial visibility

    Failures are noticed late because backup health is not monitored in one place.

  • Unclear ownership

    Recovery has no named owner, so decisions stall during the incident that matters.

  • Unvalidated assumptions

    Recovery targets were agreed once, then never tested against how the estate runs today.

The gap between confidence and evidence

40%

Nearly four in ten organisations suffered a major human-error-related outage.

Uptime Institute reported that nearly 40% of organisations had suffered a major outage caused by human error during the preceding three years.

85%

Of those outages, 85% involved ignored or inadequate procedures.

This percentage applies only to the human-error-related major outages in the Uptime Institute finding above.

44%

Only 44% of surveyed ransomware victims' playbooks included backup verification and frequency.

Veeam's 2025 research concerned organisations affected by ransomware. The finding must not be presented as a measure of all organisations or of routine backup restoration.

Sources: Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2025; Veeam 2025 Ransomware Trends.

What you receive

  • Immediate readiness band

    Your overall band, from Exposed to Recovery Assured, on screen as soon as you answer question 10.

  • Competency breakdown

    A score for every one of the ten questions, so strengths and weak spots are obvious.

  • Priority gaps

    The questions where you scored lowest, which is where your recovery risk is concentrated.

  • Recommended next steps

    Practical actions matched to your band and your weakest answers, ready to take to your team.

See your result clearly

Your result is not a single number you have to interpret alone. You see your overall maturity band, your score out of 30, and how you scored on each of the ten questions. From there it is clear which gap to close first.

Example result

Maturity score

Basic Protection

14 / 30

  • Critical systems identificationManaged Recovery
  • Backup automationManaged Recovery
  • Retention governanceBasic Protection
  • Backup protectionManaged Recovery
  • Geographic redundancyBasic Protection
  • Backup monitoringBasic Protection
  • Recovery objectivesManaged Recovery
  • Restore testingBasic Protection
  • Recovery evidenceBasic Protection
  • Recovery confidenceBasic Protection

Example values only. Your real result is calculated from your own ten answers and appears on screen the moment you finish.

Your privacy is your priority

Recovery questions are sensitive, so this assessment is built to need as little from you as possible.

  • Your answers stay in your browser
  • No result is emailed and nothing is shared or sold
  • Contact details are only collected if you ask us to follow up
  • If you have shared contact details with us, you can request deletion at any time. Our POPIA notice explains how to make that request.

Frequently asked questions

About three minutes. There are 10 questions, each with four options, and you can go back to change an answer before you finish.

No. You can complete the assessment and see your full result without giving us a name, an email address, or a company name.

Yes. Your band, your score out of 30, your competency breakdown, and your recommended next steps appear on screen as soon as you answer the tenth question. Nothing is emailed to you.

No. The assessment never connects to your AWS accounts or any other environment. It asks about your practice, not your infrastructure.

No. It is a structured self-assessment that shows how your backup and recovery practice measures up. A formal review of your AWS estate is separate, deeper work.

Your answers stay in your browser and are not submitted to us. If you choose to book a Recovery Readiness Session after seeing your result, we use only the contact details you enter there to reply.

Yes, as often as you like. Nothing is kept between visits, so reloading the page gives you a clean start.

You see your result on screen, with your band and the next steps that matter most for your gaps. If you want to work through them with us, you can book a Recovery Readiness Session from the results, which is the only point where we ask for contact details.

Could you prove recovery tomorrow?

Ten questions, about three minutes, no personal details. You will know where your recovery actually stands, and what to fix first.

Read the Prove It or Lose It guide