Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery as a Service

Continuity Is Not Luxury

For South African public sector entities and regulated private organizations, business continuity and disaster recovery are governance obligations. The PFMA, MFMA and King IV all require demonstrable continuity planning and the AGSA actively scrutinises IT continuity posture during audits.

Fewer organizations have a tested, documented and accountable recovery posture that would withstand an actual disruption or an audit.

The ABS BCDRaaS Difference

ABS assumes full operational accountability for your organization's recovery posture from the moment of engagement. Delivering a managed programme with defined outcomes; tested against your actual environment on a regular basis.

Every BCDRaaS engagement is built around your Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Solutions designed, implemented, tested and documented to deliver against those targets consistently.

What ABS Delivers

• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) development and annual review
• Business Continuity Plan (BCP) design, documentation and maintenance
• Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) aligned to your RTO and RPO targets
• Automated, encrypted backup regimes across physical, virtual and cloud workloads
• Offsite disaster recovery with geo-redundant storage
• Continuous backup monitoring and alerting integration
• DR testing with documented outcomes and improvement plans
• Documentation and evidence packs for audit readiness
• Incident and recovery runbooks for operational teams
• Monthly continuity posture reporting to relevant stakeholders

AGSA and Oversight Body Readiness

ABS BCDRaaS programmes are structured from inception to produce documentation that satisfies the Auditor General of South Africa's IT audit requirements. This includes tested recovery evidence, signed-off BIA and BCP documentation, backup monitoring logs and DR test reports.

Technology Partners

ABS delivers BCDRaaS on the Veeam platform, where ABS holds both Veeam VMSP and VMTSP status. Offsite recovery leverages Microsoft Azure South Africa regions, ensuring data sovereignty and regulatory alignment for South African organizations.