Responsibility and acceptance criteria for directory service backups are often undocumented. That leaves uncertainty over who performs restores, what counts as success and how frequently restores must be tested. This uncertainty increases risk to recoverability, data integrity and retention obligations.
The solution assigns clear roles, defines acceptance criteria, sets retention rules and specifies measurable testing obligations to produce an auditable recovery governance baseline. It covers governance, roles, policies, retention and recovery objectives, acceptance criteria, testing and auditability for the directory service while excluding routine operational procedures, procurement decisions, non-directory backups and broader identity or access design.
Recover directory objects, configurations and states to minimise downtime and data loss.
Reduce time to restore Active Directory after corruption or deletion.
Keep critical systems, applications and services available and performing reliably.
Limit operational disruption and downtime during security incidents.
Improve the organisation’s ability to withstand, recover from and adapt to evolving cyber threats.
This solution can be delivered using a range of technologies, depending on the environment, requirements, and existing platforms in place. The following are commonly used where relevant.