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Research Paper | Information Security | Volume 14 Issue 11, November 2025 | Pages: 1983 - 1993 | United States
Disaster Recovery Management in Modern Organizations: A Quantitative Framework for Resilience, Readiness and Rapid Restoration
Abstract: Disaster Recovery (DR) as a technical IT position has come to be a strategic organization capability comprising of individuals, procedures, technology and governance. With the pressure of climate change forcing the volume of cyber-attacks along with the effect of natural disasters to continue to increase annually by 38 percent (Check Point Research, 2023), the ability of an organization to respond, recover, detect and learn speedily in the case of a disruptive event has been found to be a core competitive sustainability driver. Despite the fact that detailed guidelines and standards, including ISO 22301: 2019 (Business Continuity Management) and NIST SP 800-34 (Contingency Planning Guide) have been provided, the empirical data on the effectiveness of the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) implementation in organizational and sector format remain scattered. The paper is an intersector, empirical research on disaster recovery management practice among 284 IT, risk and business continuity practitioners working in the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, and government industries. The research is grounded on the validated survey instrument (Cronbach alpha = 0.91), a sample of 21 semi-structured interviews, and retrospective examination of 112 reported calamity incidents in order to provide a set of seven formal mathematical models, including the RTO / RPO Gap Index, Business Impact Analysis Score, DR Readiness Score, System Availability Equation, and DR Investment ROI formula. It has six distinct statistical visualizations that provide a visual support on all the major dimensions of research. The results indicate that the organizations that conduct 4 or more DR tests annually attain 47.3 percent reduction in the average cost of the time to recovery and a 10-point improvement of the DR Readiness Score (DRR) would lead to a 6.8 percent drop in the costs of downtime obtained. The DR Maturity Continuum (DRMC) is a five-level prescriptive guideline that provides a methodical way of developing disaster recovery capacity in the organization.
Keywords: Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, RTO, RPO, BIA Score, DR Readiness Score, Availability Equation, Annual Loss Expectancy, DR Investment ROI, ISO 22301, DRMC, Cloud DR, Resilience
How to Cite?: Shahebazkhan Pathan, "Disaster Recovery Management in Modern Organizations: A Quantitative Framework for Resilience, Readiness and Rapid Restoration", Volume 14 Issue 11, November 2025, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1983-1993, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=MS2511074650, DOI: https://dx.dx.doi.org/10.21275/MS2511074650