Secure Infrastructure and Business Continuity

Protect identity, files, credentials, networks, monitoring, and recovery

A defense-in-depth operating baseline that keeps administrative access controlled, services observable, and critical records recoverable with explicit human incident ownership.

Budget band

under-200 · self-host heavy

Components

Tool	Role in stack	Required
authentik	Staff identity provider and SSO policy point	yes
nextcloud	Controlled internal file collaboration	yes
vaultwarden	Staff credential vault	yes
umami	Optional privacy-aware site analytics	yes
mattermost	Optional staff incident communication	optional
wireguard	Restricted administrative network path	yes
restic	Encrypted backup and recovery copies	yes

Assumptions

• A technical operator is available every week and during incidents.
• Management funds separate recovery storage and staff drills.

Risks

• Identity failure can block multiple applications without break-glass paths.
• Misconfiguration or delayed patching can erase expected privacy benefits.

Getting started

1. inventory-critical-services
2. classify-data
3. assign-incident-roles
4. protect-one-service
5. build-backups
6. run-first-recovery-drill

Audience

Roles: technical-operator, owner-operator, operations-manager, facilities

Problems: self-host-for-data-control, privacy-compliance, improve-wifi-reliability, disaster-recovery

Workflows: access-provisioning, member-offboarding, incident-response, compliance-review, backup-restore-drill

Last reviewed: 2026-07-18