Evolved360 IT
Keep Operating When
Everything Goes Wrong.
Documented Plans. Tested Recovery. Continuity You Can Rely On.
Most businesses have no written plan for what happens when a ransomware attack, flood, or critical system failure shuts them down. We build the plan — and we test it — so your team knows exactly what to do.
Your Expert Partner
A continuity plan that's never been tested is just a document in a drawer.
We've worked with Ontario businesses across professional services, healthcare, and manufacturing to build continuity programs that actually get used — not filed and forgotten. That means documented procedures your staff can execute under pressure, recovery time objectives that match your real business tolerances, and tested backups that restore when you need them to.
20+
Years IT leadership
4 hrs
Avg. RTO for managed clients
SOC 2
Type 2 certified team
15–150
Ideal employee range
What Changes
What your business gains when continuity is properly planned.
Documented Recovery Procedures
Step-by-step runbooks your team can execute without calling anyone — covering ransomware, hardware failure, facility loss, and vendor outages.
Tested Backup Restores
Backups that get verified monthly. We confirm the data is there, the restore works, and the timeline matches your RTO before a crisis forces the test.
Defined Recovery Time Objectives
Clear, agreed-upon targets for how fast each system must come back online — based on what each system actually costs the business per hour of downtime.
Staff Who Know the Plan
Tabletop exercises and role assignments so your team has rehearsed the scenario. The first time they run the plan shouldn't be during an actual incident.
The Plan
Getting started is simple.
Risk & Impact Assessment
We map your critical systems, rank them by business impact, and document what each hour of downtime actually costs — giving us the data to set meaningful RTO and RPO targets.
Plan Development & Testing
We build the runbooks, assign roles, document recovery steps for each scenario, and run a tabletop exercise with your team to validate everything before it goes live.
Ongoing Reviews & Updates
Business continuity plans go stale fast. We schedule annual reviews, update procedures when systems change, and verify backup restores quarterly so the plan stays current.
The average cost of unplanned downtime for a mid-sized business in Canada is over $8,000 per hour. A BCP costs a fraction of one incident.
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Everything under one roof.
Every layer of your IT environment — managed, monitored, and supported by one team who owns the outcome.
What Changes
What your business looks like when this is handled.
Client result
“We had a ransomware event last spring. Because we had a tested BCP in place, we were back up in under six hours. Our lawyer told us the documentation also saved us on the insurance claim. I can't imagine what that week would have looked like without it.”
Operations Manager · Professional Services Firm · Hamilton, ON · ETG client since 2021
The Case for Business Continuity Planning
What Business Continuity Planning actually means for your business.
Most Ontario businesses assume their backups are running and leave it at that. But a backup that hasn't been restored isn't a recovery plan — it's a guess. Business continuity planning is the work of turning that guess into a tested, documented, executable process that your team can follow when something goes seriously wrong. That means knowing exactly which systems need to come back first, how long each restore actually takes, and who is responsible for each step.
The scenarios we plan for have expanded significantly over the past five years. Ransomware is now the most common trigger for BCP activations, but we also plan for hardware failure, facility access loss, key-person absence, and vendor outages. Each scenario has different recovery paths and different time pressures. A well-designed BCP covers all of them, with procedures written for the people who will actually execute them — not for an IT audience.
Increasingly, having a documented BCP is also a commercial requirement. Cyber insurers are tightening their requirements, and many enterprise clients and government contracts now ask for evidence of a continuity program as part of vendor due diligence. A proper BCP from ETG comes with documentation you can use for insurance submissions, RFPs, and board reporting — not just something you keep internally.
“The businesses that recover fastest from incidents aren't the ones with the most sophisticated tools — they're the ones where someone has already written down what to do, and someone else has already practiced it.”
Evolved Technology Group
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Ready to stop worrying about this?
Book a free assessment. We'll review your current backup state, identify gaps in your continuity posture, and show you exactly what a proper BCP looks like for a business your size — no obligation.