Identify non-technical dependencies that must be available for disaster recovery to work.
The move: map the human chain. Disaster recovery is usually documented as infrastructure: backups, regions, scripts, DNS, databases, and monitoring. That is necessary but incomplete. Recovery also needs people who can make decisions, access secrets, approve communications, validate data, coordinate vendors, and run manual workarounds while systems are degraded. Stress exposes vague ownership A normal operations team can survive fuzzy ownership because people are online and tools work. A disaster removes that cushion. If the plan says notify customers, who writes, who approves, and who posts if the normal tool is down? If the plan says restore from backup, who…
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