How Redjack Asset Inventory Enables Your Disaster Recovery Planning Solution
Asset inventory is a foundational element in disaster recovery planning, offering insights into critical assets, critical business functions, and dependencies. By leveraging this information, you can help your customers develop comprehensive and effective strategies to mitigate the impact of disasters and ensure the continuity of essential business operations.
Redjack’s asset inventory solution plays a crucial role in enabling effective disaster recovery planning through several key mechanisms.
Critical Business Function Identification
Critical business functions (CBFs) are the core activities that keep an organization running smoothly and generate revenue. Understanding which functions are critical allows your customers to focus their resources and efforts on protecting these areas. The Redjack platform enables you to identify which assets are necessary for the continued operation of your customer’s CBFs so that you can correctly account for them in your disaster recovery planning.
Additionally, maintaining assets with high availability or backup requirements is expensive. Identifying your customers’ CBFs helps you reduce costs for your customers by helping them prioritize which assets would benefit most from these services.
Asset Discovery & Inventory
Unlike agent-based asset inventory systems, which are limited to only those assets capable of having the agent uploaded onto it, the Redjack solution uses communications data to identify all assets on a network communicating with other assets. Instead of needing to upload agent software to every asset, the Redjack solution uses software sensors in your customer’s network to discover and provide a comprehensive list of all connected assets within the organization. This includes assets in the cloud, on-premises, or container-based assets. It can even identify third-party assets that communicate with your customer’s assets. This comprehensive asset inventory ensures no assets are missed when setting up backups or making disaster recovery plans.
The Redjack solution automatically identifies new assets as they communicate with the network and dynamically updates the asset inventory so that you can ensure that plans remain current and relevant and that new assets are being backed up as needed.
The Redjack solution also helps you identify which assets are connected to CBFs, so you can prioritize and focus disaster recovery efforts on critical assets essential for your customer’s business operations.
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Dependency Mapping
Understanding the interdependencies between different assets is vital for disaster recovery planning. The Redjack solution allows your customer’s organization to map relationships between systems, helping identify dependencies that need to be considered in recovery strategies. Knowing this information ahead of time is vital to bring impacted systems back online quickly. Understanding which assets depend on other assets to function means that you can bring assets online in the correct order instead of having them crash immediately due to a lack of needed support.
Additionally, the Redjack solution can help identify which assets are required to keep CBFs running, helping you prioritize your disaster recovery plans and get the most critical functions up and running quickly. This ensures a holistic and more reliable approach to restoring functionality.
Resource Allocation and Prioritization
During a disaster, resources such as manpower, equipment, and technology may be limited. The Redjack solution aids in prioritizing the restoration of assets based on their criticality to business functions and their relationship with other assets. This strategic approach ensures that the most essential components are recovered first, minimizing downtime.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation
The Redjack solution aids you in conducting risk assessments by identifying weaknesses in your customer’s infrastructure. This information allows your customer’s organization to implement mitigation measures to reduce the risk of potential disasters and improve overall resilience.
Regulatory Compliance
Many regulatory frameworks mandate that organizations have effective disaster recovery plans in place. Some also mandate that organizations test their disaster recovery plans regularly. The Redjack solution supports compliance efforts by providing a documented understanding of the organization's IT landscape, helping demonstrate preparedness and adherence to regulatory requirements. It also provides you with the knowledge of which assets are critical so that you can focus your testing efforts on ensuring the continuity of these vital components. Whether it's a cyberattack, system failure, or natural disaster, Redjack data helps you design realistic testing scenarios that more accurately simulate the impact of disruptions, assess the resilience of your organization's operations, and evaluate the effectiveness of the recovery processes.
Partner With Redjack
Redjack equips top consultancies, VARs, and MSSPs to enhance their portfolios quickly through integrated asset visibility. This empowers joint customers to conquer critical threats, ensure resilience, and align to crucial risk, compliance, and transformation initiatives.
Partnering with Redjack is your gateway to unlocking more profitable opportunities and helping your clients thrive in the face of cyber adversity.
