If something failed tonight,
what would actually happen?

Have you tested your disaster recovery recently? Have you tested it against your current systems and data volumes, under conditions that resemble an actual incident rather than a planned exercise?

The gap between assumed and actual recovery capability is a finding the Sovereignty Index® is designed to surface. Businesses that upgraded their infrastructure without updating their recovery documentation. Businesses whose backups run nightly but whose restore procedures have never been executed. Businesses that have an RTO target in a policy document but no evidence it was ever validated.

This check asks five questions about your recovery posture: what you back up, how often, where it is stored, whether it has been tested, and whether the documentation exists for a team that was not involved in setting it up. The result gives you a readiness rating and identifies the specific gaps most likely to matter during an incident. If you want the scored version of this as part of a full estate assessment, that is the Resilience pillar of the Sovereignty Index®.