Aurora, Built
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery in Aurora, Built for a Supply Chain That Audits It
A backup you’ve never tested is a guess. A recovery plan built only for ransomware misses the vendor questionnaire, the grid outage, and the audit that don’t ask permission first.
ACT360 builds, tests, and documents business continuity and disaster recovery plans for Aurora businesses, built on the ACTION methodology, so a server failure, ransomware attack, or a regional power outage doesn’t turn into a lost month.
FREE · 30 MIN · NO OBLIGATION
What Your Free Backup & Recovery Review Covers
A 30-minute conversation with an ACT360 technology partner about your current backup setup, and what it would actually mean for your business if you lost access for days instead of hours.
- Whether your current backups would actually recover
- Your realistic recovery time if you lost access for a week
- What a tested, documented recovery plan would look like for your business
Why Aurora Businesses Get Asked to Prove Their Recovery Plan Works
Business continuity and disaster recovery means your systems and data can be restored quickly after ransomware, hardware failure, or a regional power outage, not just backed up somewhere and hoped for. Aurora has a specific reason this comes up more often than in a lot of towns its size: Magna International’s global head office sits here, and automotive supply chains run on documented vendor risk management. Any Aurora business supplying into that world already knows OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers routinely send security and continuity questionnaires before signing or renewing a contract, the same pattern ACT360 sees on the cybersecurity side. A verbal assurance that backups exist doesn’t satisfy that questionnaire.
It isn’t only a supply-chain issue. In late March 2025, a widespread ice storm strained the electrical grid across the region, Alectra Utilities, which serves Aurora, spent days on power restoration across its territory while ice-damaged lines and trees came down. A recovery plan built only around a hacker scenario doesn’t answer the question that actually matters when the power itself is the problem: can your business keep operating, or recover fast, without waiting for someone else’s line crew.
ACT360 tests backups on a schedule rather than assuming they’ll work, and builds recovery plans around what actually threatens an Aurora business, not a generic checklist. See our full IT services in Aurora for the rest of what we cover here, or keep reading for how continuity and recovery planning works specifically.
What’s Included in ACT360 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery in Aurora
Recovery-Ready Backup Design
Built around the systems your Aurora business actually depends on, not a generic template.
Scheduled Test Restores
We test recovery on a schedule. A backup job that says “successful” isn’t proof it will actually restore.
Documented Recovery Time
A specific number for your business, not an industry average, so you know what to expect if systems go down.
Planning for More Than Ransomware
Built to hold up against an encryption attack and a regional grid outage, not just one or the other.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Ready for a Magna-adjacent vendor questionnaire or an insurer’s due-diligence request, not a verbal assurance that backups exist.
Ongoing Recovery Reviews
Plans get retested as your systems change, not set up once during onboarding and forgotten.
What a Vendor Questionnaire, or a Multi-Day Outage, Actually Asks of Your Business
Two very different events ask your recovery plan the same question: can you prove it works before you need it, not after.
For a practical starting point, the Government of Canada’s small business ransomware guidance outlines what a minimum-viable recovery plan should cover, even before a formal engagement begins.
Our Approach
A.C.T.I.O.N.
For business continuity and disaster recovery in Aurora, ACTION means finding out what your backups would actually do today rather than assuming, building a plan around your specific systems and how long you can afford to be without them, and rolling changes in stages so nothing is left exposed while we work.
Assess
A real look at what’s running today, how it’s backed up, and whether that backup has ever actually been tested, not a quote built from a device list.
Comprehend
We look at what a day, or a week, without each system would actually cost your Aurora business, so recovery priorities are set by impact, not guesswork.
Tailor
The plan is built around your systems and your tolerance for downtime, with specifics, reasoning, and cost, not a pre-packaged tier.
Implement
Phased, not big-bang. Recovery capability is built and proven for critical systems first, then expanded.
Optimize
Recovery plans get reviewed on an ongoing basis as your systems change, not set once during onboarding and left alone.
Nurture
We stay familiar with your environment, so a recovery, if you ever need one, isn’t the first time we’ve actually looked at your systems.
Where the 90-Day Exit Clause Fits In
Financial
The 90-day exit clause applies to Managed IT contracts specifically. Transparent pricing on a standalone continuity engagement is confirmed during the assessment, not guessed at upfront.
Switching
Discovery before anything is touched, then a phased rollout, not a big-bang cutover.
Political
The Assess step gives you a document you can show leadership before any proposal is written.
Operational
A named contact, Adam or Jeffrey, not a rotating helpdesk. You always know who to call.
Ownership
You own everything we build. Handoff and documentation included, so your team isn’t dependent on us to understand your own recovery plan.
The Team Values Behind ACT360’s Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery in Aurora
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning in Aurora is handled by the same team that lives by these values, Be a Problem Solver matters most when something’s actually gone wrong.
Be the Client
We listen to our clients and other team members to understand the full scope of the requirements and goals. We put ourselves in your shoes as we design and build the processes, tools, and infrastructure that will make your team more productive.
Give the 360° Solution
Our goal is to give our clients the full solution, so your technology becomes a profit enhancer rather than a profit hindrance. That’s why we offer more than a service desk or IT support, we bring a vCIO, IT strategy, and process improvement to the table.
Be a Problem Solver
We look beyond the problem to find its actual source so we can resolve it. When we work with your team and any vendors, we make sure every issue at hand is fully addressed.
Always Looking Forward
We strive to deal with our mistakes as a team, learn from them, fix them, and then not look back and repeat them. We also aim to provide proactive and forward-facing solutions by identifying issues as soon as they’re spotted.
Working to Live, Not Living to Work
We want our employees to feel supported to take care of family and personal needs. So we believe in creating a flexible, asynchronous, and remote-friendly workplace, as long as the work is getting done well and on time, then we are satisfied.
Treating Employees Like Experts
We believe our employees are experts who can be trusted to own their work and feel empowered to improve results. So we trust our experts to create solutions in efficient ways that work for them and to seek continual improvement, for the company and for others.
Case Studies
Proof, Reviews & Results
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You won’t be handed off to a rotating helpdesk. Here’s who you’ll actually talk to.
Adam Bowles
Partner & CEO15+ years helping Ontario businesses close the gap between the technology they bought and the technology they actually need. Adam won’t recommend a recovery plan until he understands what your business actually can’t afford to lose.
Jeffrey Bowles
Partner & Director of IT ServicesOne of ACT360’s founding team members, trained in computer science at Georgian College. Jeffrey runs backup design, test restores, and recovery documentation, and leads ACT360’s vCIO and DEEP MSP programs.
Talk to ACT360’s Aurora continuity team today about testing your backups
Get in TouchWhat Aurora Businesses Ask Before Trusting a Recovery Plan
A proper recovery plan covers both, because a ransomware-only plan doesn’t answer a vendor’s continuity questionnaire or help when a grid outage takes your systems offline. ACT360 plans around whatever actually threatens your business and documents it in a form a vendor or insurer can actually use. That applies even if you’re not in the automotive supply chain, because a regional power outage or a hardware failure doesn’t check what industry you’re in first. The supply-chain questionnaire is just the clearest example of someone asking an Aurora business to prove its recovery plan works.
Testing on a schedule is the only way to know, because a backup job that says “successful” isn’t proof it will actually restore. ACT360 runs scheduled test restores and documents the results, so the first time a recovery is attempted isn’t during a real incident.
It depends on which systems you mean and whether the plan behind them has ever been tested. ACT360 documents a specific recovery time objective for each critical system during onboarding, instead of quoting one generic number for your whole business.
Backup and recovery planning changes when the data involved is privileged or regulated, for example a business with PHIPA-level healthcare obligations. Auditors typically expect that documented, not just assumed to be handled.
Timing depends on how many critical systems you run, how they’re backed up today, and whether those backups have ever been tested, so it’s scoped after the assessment rather than quoted upfront. Discovery happens before anything is touched, then the rollout is phased, not big-bang. Recovery capability is built and proven for your most critical systems first, then expanded. Plans get retested as your systems change, not set once and forgotten.
Either works, depending on what fits your business. Inside a Managed IT engagement, ACT360’s 90-day exit clause applies to that Managed IT agreement. As a standalone project, continuity work is scoped and quoted on its own.
Pricing for a standalone continuity engagement is confirmed during the free assessment, because it depends on how many systems need protecting, how fast each one has to come back, and what documentation your vendors or insurer expect. Managed IT, if you bundle continuity into it, has its own published range of $80 to $150 CAD per user per month for full service, with Microsoft licensing billed separately. The free 30-minute IT Readiness Assessment is where that number starts, with no obligation.
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