A backup you have never tested is just a hope. This quick check reveals the gaps that turn "we are backed up" into "we lost everything" when ransomware hits.

What it is

A short, honest questionnaire built around the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different types of media, with one kept off-site and offline. It scores your real backup resilience and highlights the single most common fatal flaw: backups that are always connected, and so get encrypted right alongside everything else.

How to use it effectively

1. Answer for what is actually true today. Not what is planned or what the contract says. The value is in surfacing the gap between assumption and reality.
2. Pay attention to the restore question. Having a backup and having a tested restore are very different things. Most businesses have never done a real restore test.
3. Check the offline copy. If every copy of your data is reachable from your network, ransomware can reach it too. An offline or immutable copy is what saves you.
4. Fix the red items first. The checker ranks your gaps. Start with anything that would leave you with no clean copy to recover from.

Why it matters

When ransomware succeeds, your backup is the difference between a bad week and the end of the business. Yet backups fail silently all the time: never tested, always connected, or missing the systems that matter most. Five minutes here can reveal a gap that would otherwise only show up on the worst day of your business life.