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DR Plan Generator from IT Perfection helps business owners, IT managers, and technical teams review systems, contacts, recovery steps, priorities and related operational risk.

Created by Ali Hassani, CISO - 25+ years of IT, cybersecurity, compliance, Microsoft infrastructure, network security, and IT operations experience.

Assessment overview

What this tool reviews

DR Plan Generator from IT Perfection helps business owners, IT managers, and technical teams review systems, contacts, recovery steps, priorities and related operational risk.

The scorecard is built for business owners, IT managers, and administrators who need to confirm evidence quality, access boundaries, logging coverage, exception status, and remediation priority before a project, audit, renewal, or support review.

Important disclaimer

This tool is for initial guidance only and does not replace a professional cybersecurity audit, compliance assessment, penetration test, architecture review, or legal/compliance review.

Interactive scorecard

DR Plan Generator scorecard

Answer each item using available configuration records, access lists, logs, ticket history, screenshots, backup evidence, or vendor console data. Results are calculated locally in the browser and are not submitted to IT Perfection.

1. Systems

Review systems design, evidence location, control ownership, and recurring validation records. Evidence to review: current diagrams, device/server exports, vendor contacts, recovery steps, and last-reviewed dates.

Do the records for systems identify the control owner, approved baseline, evidence location, and most recent validation date?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Systems must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for source-of-truth, configuration export, version control, owner approval, change history, evidence package.

Business impact

Weak systems controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. It can increase remediation cost and delay recovery.

What Systems are

Systems are the dr plan generator control area that defines expected configuration, ownership, supporting evidence, and review cadence. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For systems, the relevant evidence usually includes current diagrams, device/server exports, vendor contacts, recovery steps, and last-reviewed dates. Review the related source-of-truth, configuration export, version control, owner approval, change history, evidence package, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include documentation portal, diagramming tool, firewall/router exports, CMDB, ticketing and change records.

2. Contacts

Review contacts design, evidence location, control ownership, and recurring validation records. Evidence to review: sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners.

Can the team prove that contacts matches the intended configuration and was reviewed after material changes?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Contacts must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs.

Business impact

Weak contacts controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. Risk increases when ownership, evidence, or exceptions are not documented.

What Contacts are

Contacts are the operating area where policy, configuration, monitoring, and support records need to agree with the actual environment. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For contacts, the relevant evidence usually includes sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners. Review the related SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include ticketing system, documentation portal, change calendar, asset inventory, monitoring alerts, configuration exports.

3. Recovery steps

Recovery sequencing, priority assignment, and business continuity readiness. Evidence to review: review job success history, protected workload scope, immutable-copy status, last restore test, retention settings, and recovery dependency mapping.

Are exceptions, ownership, monitoring records, and response evidence for recovery steps documented well enough for audit or incident response?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Recovery steps must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for RTO, RPO, 3-2-1 backup, immutable storage, air gap, restore verification, retention policy, recovery runbook, ransomware isolation.

Business impact

Weak recovery steps controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. Risk increases when ownership, evidence, or exceptions are not documented.

What Recovery steps are

Recovery steps are the technical and administrative control set used to prove this part of the environment is configured, maintained, and reviewed. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For recovery steps, the relevant evidence usually includes review job success history, protected workload scope, immutable-copy status, last restore test, retention settings, and recovery dependency mapping. Review the related RTO, RPO, 3-2-1 backup, immutable storage, air gap, restore verification, retention policy, recovery runbook, ransomware isolation, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include backup console, restore-test logs, storage reports, DR runbooks, cloud backup policy, ticketing evidence.

4. Priorities

Review priorities design, evidence location, control ownership, and recurring validation records. Evidence to review: current diagrams, device/server exports, vendor contacts, recovery steps, and last-reviewed dates.

Do the records for priorities identify the control owner, approved baseline, evidence location, and most recent validation date?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Priorities must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for source-of-truth, configuration export, version control, owner approval, change history, evidence package.

Business impact

Weak priorities controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. It often becomes visible during audits, renewals, or outside reviews.

What Priorities are

Priorities are the dr plan generator control area that defines expected configuration, ownership, supporting evidence, and review cadence. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For priorities, the relevant evidence usually includes current diagrams, device/server exports, vendor contacts, recovery steps, and last-reviewed dates. Review the related source-of-truth, configuration export, version control, owner approval, change history, evidence package, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include documentation portal, diagramming tool, firewall/router exports, CMDB, ticketing and change records.

5. Documentation

Operational runbooks, evidence repositories, and procedure accuracy. Evidence to review: sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners.

Can the team prove that documentation matches the intended configuration and was reviewed after material changes?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Documentation must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs.

Business impact

Weak documentation controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. It can increase remediation cost and delay recovery.

What Documentation is

Documentation is the operating area where policy, configuration, monitoring, and support records need to agree with the actual environment. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For documentation, the relevant evidence usually includes sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners. Review the related SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include ticketing system, documentation portal, change calendar, asset inventory, monitoring alerts, configuration exports.

6. Monitoring

Telemetry collection, alert thresholds, and escalation workflows. Evidence to review: inspect zone changes, resolver paths, DHCP scope utilization, alert thresholds, log retention, NTP synchronization, and monitoring coverage gaps.

Are exceptions, ownership, monitoring records, and response evidence for monitoring documented well enough for audit or incident response?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Monitoring must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for forwarders, secure dynamic updates, DHCP failover, reservations, lease scope utilization, syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, SIEM correlation.

Business impact

Weak monitoring controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. Risk increases when ownership, evidence, or exceptions are not documented.

What Monitoring is

Monitoring is the technical and administrative control set used to prove this part of the environment is configured, maintained, and reviewed. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For monitoring, the relevant evidence usually includes inspect zone changes, resolver paths, DHCP scope utilization, alert thresholds, log retention, NTP synchronization, and monitoring coverage gaps. Review the related forwarders, secure dynamic updates, DHCP failover, reservations, lease scope utilization, syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, SIEM correlation, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include DNS/DHCP consoles, SIEM, syslog server, network monitoring dashboards, packet captures, availability reports.

7. Ownership

RACI clarity for approvals, maintenance, and review obligations. Evidence to review: sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners.

Do the records for ownership identify the control owner, approved baseline, evidence location, and most recent validation date?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Ownership must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs.

Business impact

Weak ownership controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. Risk increases when ownership, evidence, or exceptions are not documented.

What Ownership is

Ownership is the dr plan generator control area that defines expected configuration, ownership, supporting evidence, and review cadence. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For ownership, the relevant evidence usually includes sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners. Review the related SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include ticketing system, documentation portal, change calendar, asset inventory, monitoring alerts, configuration exports.

8. Testing

Validation frequency, test evidence quality, and remediation verification. Evidence to review: sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners.

Can the team prove that testing matches the intended configuration and was reviewed after material changes?

Review guidance, technical context, and business impact
Why it matters

Testing must be traceable to an approved configuration, named owner, and dated validation record. Without that evidence, teams cannot prove the control is configured as intended or determine whether exceptions are still justified. Review evidence for SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs.

Business impact

Weak testing controls can leave stale access, unmonitored changes, unsupported assets, or untested recovery paths in production. The result is longer triage time, weaker audit evidence, and higher remediation cost. It often becomes visible during audits, renewals, or outside reviews.

What Testing is

Testing is the operating area where policy, configuration, monitoring, and support records need to agree with the actual environment. A reviewer should be able to confirm the current state from system exports, admin-console settings, monitoring records, tickets, and maintained documentation. For testing, the relevant evidence usually includes sample recent tickets and changes, verify approval and rollback records, compare documentation against production, and confirm named owners. Review the related SLA, RACI, change advisory review, rollback plan, runbook accuracy, configuration management, evidence repository, operational KPIs, then confirm which systems or users are affected, which logs prove the control is operating, and how exceptions are approved, tracked, and revisited. Common review sources include ticketing system, documentation portal, change calendar, asset inventory, monitoring alerts, configuration exports.

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Ali Hassani, CISO and IT infrastructure consultant

Ali Hassani, CISO

Created by Ali Hassani, CISO - 25+ years of IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure experience.

Certifications: CISSP, CCISO, CCNP, CCNA, MCSE, MCSA Security, MCITP, MCP, and MCTS. View Ali's IT Perfection profile.

Complete the assessment and calculate results to populate this report with your score, findings, recommendations, and priority roadmap.

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Disclaimer: This free tool is a preliminary self-assessment and educational resource. It does not replace a professional cybersecurity audit, compliance assessment, penetration test, or legal/compliance review.

Ali Hassani, CISO and IT infrastructure specialist

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DR Plan Generator guidance backed by real infrastructure experience

Ali Hassani is a cybersecurity consultant, virtual CISO, network security engineer, and IT infrastructure specialist with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations design, secure, audit, and support business IT environments.