Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services
Lanter helps businesses prepare for IT disruptions and recover when things go wrong. Our business continuity and disaster recovery services help you keep essential operations running and restore critical systems and data, with options to suit your needs and budget.
Keeping Your Business Trading When Something Goes Wrong
The Right Continuity and Recovery Plan for Your Business
We develop practical business continuity solutions tailored to your systems and risks. Unlike consultants who simply deliver a plan, Lanter can implement, manage and test the technology your recovery depends on.
Work Out Which Systems You Cannot Trade Without
What happens if your accounting platform goes down for a day or email becomes unavailable? We assess how an outage would affect your business, how long you can operate without each system and what alternatives are available to keep things moving until service is restored.
Put Numbers on Acceptable Downtime and Data Loss
How long can your business operate without a system? How much data could you lose? We establish realistic recovery targets based on business impact, risk and budget.
Keep People Working While Systems Are Being Restored
Sometimes the best solution isn't more technology. Remote working arrangements, alternative applications or temporary offline processes can help maintain business continuity, allowing staff to stay productive and customers to be supported during an IT outage.
Protect Microsoft 365, Azure and On-Site Systems From Ransomware
Cloud services don't automatically eliminate backup responsibilities. We assess protection across Microsoft 365, Azure and on-site infrastructure, including how cyber threats are detected and contained, how backups can be protected from ransomware and how systems can be safely restored.
Test the Plan and the Restore, Not Just the Backup Report
A successful backup doesn't guarantee successful recovery. We test restoration, document results and identify gaps, providing evidence that supports the Essential Eight's Regular Backups requirements.
What's Included in Our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services
- Business impact assessments and risk analysis
- System-specific business continuity plans
- Recovery time and data loss targets
- Alternative working arrangements and offline processes
- Data backup, replication and recovery solutions
- Microsoft 365, Azure and on-site infrastructure protection
- Ransomware detection, containment and recovery planning
- Cloud-based disaster recovery using Azure or AWS
- Backup restoration testing and Essential Eight evidence
- Ongoing monitoring, plan reviews and recovery support
Why Sydney Businesses Trust Lanter With Their Continuity Planning
A Plan Built Around Your Business, Not a Template Document
We take the time to understand your business and recommend solutions that suit your needs, whether that’s additional technology or a simple workaround. Our advice balances business risk, recovery requirements and cost, without recommending unnecessary technology or expense.
Engineers Who Have Run Real Recoveries, Not Just Written About Them
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Sophos Platinum Partner, Lanter combines business continuity planning with hands-on IT and cybersecurity expertise. Our engineers don’t just develop recovery plans. They can also implement, manage and test the systems needed to put them into action.
Clear About What We Can Restore, How Fast and What It Costs
We explain your recovery options, expected timeframes and costs upfront, so you know what to expect if something goes wrong. We’ll help you understand the trade-offs between different solutions and choose the right level of protection for your business and budget.
Continuity and Disaster Recovery at Any Size
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses
We help smaller businesses protect essential systems and data with reliable backups, straightforward recovery plans and affordable ways to keep working during an IT outage.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Medium Businesses
As businesses grow, they often rely on more applications, cloud services and IT infrastructure. We help identify critical systems, establish recovery priorities and put the right measures in place to minimise disruption and data loss.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Large & Multi-Site Organisations
For larger organisations, we develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans across multiple systems, teams and locations. This includes coordinating recovery procedures, testing backup systems and helping maintain essential operations during major IT disruptions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between backup, disaster recovery and business continuity?
Backup preserves data. Disaster recovery restores systems after disruption. Business continuity keeps essential operations running while recovery takes place.
What are RTO and RPO, and how do we set ours?
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) defines your target restoration time. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines acceptable data loss measured in time. We help set realistic targets.
How do our staff keep working while systems are being restored?
Depending on the disruption, staff may work remotely, use alternative applications or follow temporary offline processes. Lanter helps you identify and plan the best approach so your business can continue operating during an outage.
Our data is in Microsoft 365, so isn't it already backed up?
Microsoft protects the availability of its services, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can recover every deleted, corrupted or compromised file. Lanter helps assess your existing protection and determine whether additional backups are needed to meet your recovery requirements.
Where will our backup data be stored?
We review where your backups are stored and discuss the available options, including Australian data storage where required. We’ll also consider security, accessibility and recovery needs when recommending the most suitable arrangement.
How do you prove our backups will actually be restored?
Lanter tests your backups to confirm that data can be recovered and systems are working as expected. We document the results, including any issues identified, so you have a clear picture of how well your recovery arrangements will work in an outage.
How quickly could we be running again after a ransomware attack?
Recovery depends on the damage, available clean backups and recovery arrangements. Our approach considers threat detection, containment, backup protection and safe restoration.
How often should our continuity and recovery plan be tested?
At least annually is a useful starting point, with additional testing following significant changes to systems or business operations.
Does this help us meet Essential Eight backup requirements?
Yes. Our backup planning and restoration testing can support the Essential Eight Regular Backups control, including testing recovery and documenting evidence. Compliance depends on your overall implementation.
Can you work with our existing backup product and internal IT team?
Absolutely. We work with existing systems and internal IT teams, recommending changes only where they deliver meaningful benefits.