A Novel Risk Mitigation & Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Framework for Small to Medium Size Businesses
Roberto Ramirez Solis, Narasimha Shashidhar, Cihan Varol · 2021
Current guidelines and frameworks for disaster recovery and business continuity focus on helping corporations and large enterprises. With a rising number of vendors offering cloud computing solutions, most small to medium-size businesses do not count on the minimum number of users to qualify for any tier package. Moreover, the cost of purchasing a solution that does not scale to fit the needs of a small business is a consistent issue. Our solution presents a novel framework granting medium to small-size businesses the opportunity to mitigate risk and resume activities after a disaster has taken place. Furthermore, we present several recovery alternatives using a cloud-based storage solution. The results show that an optimal recovery time objective can be achieved by allowing users to retrieve backups from any platform or device with web-browsing capabilities. Also, a high level of integrity on each client can be reached, which lowers the chances of losing data or exposing financial records to an attacker.