DR Plan for Kenyan Regulatory Compliance
A tested Disaster Recovery Plan document that meets Kenyan regulatory audit requirements, covering recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, tested backup procedures, and documented restore time certifications.
Key highlights
- Written DR Plan document structured for regulatory audit review
- RTO and RPO defined and documented per system
- Tested backup procedures with restore time certification
- Annual DR test exercise with written test report
- Fully maintained and updated as your infrastructure changes
A DR Plan that meets Kenyan compliance requirements
Most financial institutions subject to Kenyan regulatory oversight have some form of backup in place. What they often don't have is a tested, documented Disaster Recovery Plan that satisfies what an auditor actually looks for. The difference matters. A backup job that runs without errors is not a DR Plan. An auditor wants to see defined recovery objectives, documented procedures, evidence of testing, and confirmed restore times. Sentire delivers all of this as a single packaged engagement.
What Kenyan regulators audit for in DR
Regulators assess whether the institution has a documented DR Plan with defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), evidence that the plan has been tested within the past 12 months, documented results from the most recent DR test exercise, and a named DR coordinator and succession plan.
What the DR Plan engagement produces
System criticality classification
We work with your team to classify every business system by criticality: what is the acceptable downtime, and what is the acceptable data loss, for each. These become your RTOs and RPOs, the foundation of the DR Plan.
Recovery procedure documentation
For each critical system, we document the exact recovery procedure: which backup to restore, from which location, in what sequence, by whom. Procedures are written at a level of detail that allows recovery even if key staff are unavailable.
Backup and restore testing
We run a live restore test against your current backup environment, measuring actual restore times against documented RTOs. The result is a restore time certification: evidence that backups restore within the time your business can tolerate.
Written DR Plan and test report
The engagement produces two documents: the DR Plan itself, structured for audit review, and a test report from the live exercise, recording what was tested, what was recovered, and the time taken.
The DR Plan is maintained as a living document. When your infrastructure changes, we update the plan. When the annual review cycle approaches, we schedule the next test exercise and update the test report.
Get audit-ready before your next examination
Regulators increasingly treat an inadequate DR Plan as a material finding. Getting ahead of it before the audit cycle means the evidence exists when it's requested. Contact Sentire to scope a DR Plan engagement for your institution.
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Restore Testing and Verification
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Get it done right
Let Sentire handle your DR Plan for Kenyan Regulatory Compliance.
Our engineers are based in Nairobi and support businesses across Kenya. No lengthy contracts. Just reliable, expert IT delivered as a service.