The guide outlines selecting disaster recovery software in regulated environments by defining RTO/RPO aligned with compliance, emphasizing immutable and air-gapped backups, ensuring HIPAA/PCI DSS adherence, and evaluating vendors on reliability, security, and cost transparency.
Disaster recovery testing ensures resilience by aligning with compliance, assessing business and vendor impacts, validating backups, conducting tabletop and failover tests, updating runbooks, and maintaining audit-ready evidence.