Databarracks has launched a tool designed to help organisations assess their ability to recover from cyber incidents and IT disruption.

Based on more than 20 years of work in data protection and resilience, the Recovery Confidence Score combines operational, security, segregation, testing and validation factors into a single score out of 100. It is designed for repeated use, allowing organisations to benchmark recovery readiness and monitor change over time.

Early users report that the score has helped to clarify risk and highlight weaknesses.

"The Recovery Confidence Score has been particularly useful for identifying business risk and helped to support budget discussions at board level," said Adam Gomes, director, global infrastructure manager and CISO at Javelin Global Commodities. “The introduction of the Recovery Confidence Score helped us clearly identify gaps in our back-up and recovery strategy, and assess how effective it was.”

James Watts, managing director at Databarracks, added: “To really know that you can recover, you need evidence, not assumptions. You need to know that your back-ups are completing, that your data protection works and has kept pace with change across your environment, and that recovery has been tested and proven. Recovery Confidence is about knowing, not hoping, that you can recover.”

Early results show the Recovery Confidence Score is helping organisations improve their recovery readiness and build resilience, with the average score rising by almost 10%, from 63 to 70.2 out of 100.

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