Your plant can survive a server outage and still fail operationally. That's the mistake many manufacturers make. They have backups for Microsoft 365, maybe a firewall refresh plan, maybe a generic DR binder in a shared folder, but no practical recovery path for the systems that run production. If you
A Business Impact Analysis is not paperwork. It's the document that tells you what must stay running, how long you can survive without it, and what failure will cost your business in Saskatchewan. The urgency is real. 68% of Saskatchewan small businesses reported a significant operational disruption between 2019 and
Monday starts normally. Staff log in, the phones are already ringing, and someone in accounting says the file server is slow. Ten minutes later, users can't open shared folders, Microsoft 365 prompts start failing, and a ransom note appears on a workstation. In another shop, it isn't ransomware at all.
You're probably closer to needing disaster recovery than you think. A staff member can't open the accounting system on a Monday morning. Email still works, but shared files are gone. Your line-of-business app won't authenticate users. Maybe it's ransomware. Maybe a failed update. Maybe a power event after a Saskatchewan
