The disaster recovery plan that has never seen a real disaster

Your disaster recovery plan names the right people, lists the right systems, and was last reviewed before two of the people on it changed roles. It looks complete on paper. Nobody has run it end to end since the tools it references were current, which means the first real test of whether it works will happen during an actual disaster. 

That is the worst time to find a broken link in the chain. 

The prompt:

You are building a reality check for an MSP's disaster recovery plan. 

Context: [the DR plan as written, your current team structure, and your current tool stack] 

Build: 

  • Every reference in the plan to a person, tool, or contact that might be out of date, flagged 


  • A tabletop exercise script the team can run in under an hour to test the rest