Backups that survive the attack, restores that actually work.

Why Backups Are the Story Now

Here’s a number that should stop you cold: 94% of ransomware attacks now specifically target backup systems before encrypting production. Not after. Before. Ransomware crews mapped the recovery path and they go there first.

Forty-seven percent of small businesses under $10 million in revenue were hit by ransomware in the past year. Q2 2025 ransom payments averaged $1.13 million. The IBM 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found 76% of breached organizations needed more than 100 days to fully recover. And 68% of attacks try to corrupt or delete backup data outright before the encryption even starts.

Traditional backup setups that worked five years ago don’t survive a modern attack. The backup is now the target.

What AdVran’s Backup and DR Service Actually Looks Like

Three layers, designed to work together:

Layer 1: Immutable backups. Your data gets written to a repository that can’t be modified or deleted within the retention window, even by someone with admin credentials. This is the layer ransomware can’t touch.

Layer 2: Air-gapped copies. A separate offsite copy that shares no credentials, network paths, or management plane with production. If an attacker pivots from production to backups, they hit a wall. Full stop.

Layer 3: Tested disaster recovery. Documented procedures and DRaaS infrastructure that brings critical systems back online within your RTO target. Not in theory. Tested quarterly with real restore drills.

What’s Included in the Service

• Backup design and deployment for endpoints, servers, virtual machines, databases, and SaaS applications including Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
• Immutability and air gap built into the architecture from day one, not bolted on later
• RPO and RTO definition based on the real cost of downtime to your business, with targets documented in your runbook
• DRaaS deployment for critical systems, with a cloud failover environment that can be activated within your RTO
• Quarterly restore testing with documented results and remediation of any gaps found
• Annual disaster recovery exercise: a tabletop walkthrough of a worst-case scenario, scoped to your actual business
• Backup health monitoring included as part of our SOC so failed backups get caught the same day

The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule, Updated for Ransomware

The traditional 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 different media, 1 offsite) isn’t enough anymore. The modern standard most security teams follow is 3-2-1-1-0:

Number	Means
3 copies of your data
2 different storage media
1 offsite copy
1 immutable or air-gapped copy
0 errors after restore verification

AdVran’s backup architecture is built to this standard from day one. Not as an upsell. As the baseline.

Why California Businesses Care

Two angles, both serious:

Regulatory. California SB 446 took effect January 1, 2026, shortening the breach notification window to 30 days. HIPAA’s contingency plan requirements (45 CFR § 164.308(a)(7)) require documented backup procedures and disaster recovery plans for healthcare clients. PCI DSS Requirement 12.10 mandates incident response plans that include data recovery. CMMC 2.0 Level 2 includes specific backup controls. Failing to recover quickly, and failing to document the recovery, creates compounding compliance liability on top of the breach itself.

Operational. Southern California’s industry mix runs on always-on systems. A Newport Beach RIA firm can’t stop trading during an outage. An Anaheim hospitality vendor processes credit cards live during a convention. An Irvine biotech tracks production batches in real time for FDA audit trails. Downtime isn’t an inconvenience for these businesses. It’s a financial event measured per hour.

Sound familiar? If you’ve ever done the mental math on what one day of downtime would actually cost your business, you already know why this matters.

Who This Service Fits

• Any California business that holds customer data with compliance exposure under HIPAA, CCPA, PCI DSS, or CMMC
• Healthcare and life sciences organizations with PHI or FDA-regulated records
• Defense contractors managing CUI under CMMC where backup of regulated data is a control requirement
• Manufacturing and logistics operations where production downtime has a per-hour dollar cost
• Financial services and law firms where loss of client records is an existential business event
• Any organization without a tested restore in the last 90 days, because untested backups are worse than no backups

What Recovery Looks Like in Practice

Without a real backup and DR program: 31% of organizations who paid the ransom still needed 1 to 6 months to fully recover. Median ransomware downtime now exceeds three weeks across the industry.

With AdVran’s service: typical client RTO runs 4 to 8 hours for tier 1 systems and 24 hours for the broader environment. Our quarterly restore tests validate that target, not just on paper. Clients who’ve ridden out a real ransomware event with us were back in production from immutable backups without paying the ransom. (That outcome isn’t guaranteed, but it’s also not luck. It’s architecture.)

The program is delivered as a flat per-month fee that covers monitoring, immutable storage, DRaaS infrastructure for critical systems, restore testing, and the annual DR exercise. Pricing scales with data volume and RTO targets, not user count.

BCP and DR planning work together: disaster recovery brings your systems back online, while business continuity planning defines how your organization operates during recovery, covering workforce communication, customer commitments, and operational workarounds. AdVran covers all three components (backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning) under one program, because each layer only works when the others are in place.

AdVran was founded by Adrian Monges Rodriguez, a computer engineer with extensive experience managing enterprise IT and network infrastructure for aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure organizations in Southern California. In that work, untested failure modes weren’t acceptable. Tested recovery procedures were a deliverable, not an afterthought. The same standard applies to your IT environment.