01

Define critical services

Map the customer, citizen, safety, financial, and legal consequences of interruption.

02

Trace dependencies

Include people, identity, data, applications, infrastructure, suppliers, facilities, and communications.

03

Engineer recoverability

Protect clean copies, privileged access, recovery environments, tooling, and documented sequences.

04

Exercise decisions

Test technical recovery and the leadership choices that set priorities, accept risk, and communicate status.