The New Standards of Disaster Recovery Plan is a structured disaster recovery planning framework and consulting service developed by Asgard Managed Services, targeting healthcare and payer organizations with 50 or more employees. The report and accompanying service provide a methodology for building disaster recovery plans that address common gaps found in typical backup-only approaches, such as the absence of application and operating system recovery procedures. It is designed to help organizations meet HIPAA disaster recovery and business continuity requirements without requiring expensive on-site consultants. Key aspects of the offering include: - A documented framework outlining recovery standards specific to care organizations - Scalable planning applicable to organizations ranging from 50-person practices to 1,000+ person hospitals - Guidance derived from real-world ransomware and natural disaster incident response experiences - A companion managed service called EverShield, which provides cloud and on-site backup infrastructure - Recovery monitoring capabilities that allow clients to verify backup status The plan addresses recovery scenarios including ransomware encryption, natural disasters, and infrastructure failures. It emphasizes the distinction between file-only backups and full system recovery (including applications and operating systems), and focuses on pre-defining access procedures, responsibilities, and restoration sequences before an incident occurs. The service originated from Asgard's experience deploying Allscripts (an electronic medical records platform) to thousands of care organizations, during which widespread deficiencies in disaster readiness were identified.