08/06/2026
An IT recovery process might work fine in theory.
In practice, you discover whether your plan holds water under the pressure of an actual outage, with your business offline and customers waiting for answers.
Just like a deep-sea diver who practices in a tank before diving in open water, your business should test recovery under realistic pressure before a true crisis forces you to improvise.
Controlled testing under simulated pressure conditions reveals problems before they cost you customers or revenue.
Like this post if you've experienced unexpected system failures before and learned from it.