Veoci Releases Capstone ITDR: Disaster Recovery for Higher Education

NEW HAVEN, Conn., — Veoci, a leader in Resilience and Crisis Response Software, has released Capstone ITDR, a disaster recovery product for Universities and Colleges. Operating separately from the institution’s primary infrastructure.

Capstone ITDR enables IT teams to execute drill-tested digital playbooks and coordinate technical recovery with one click, even when core systems are down. By centralizing live status updates, task and process management, automated notifications, and real-time incident tracking, Capstone ITDR ensures that leadership, departments, students, and staff are kept informed until recovery from the outage is complete. 

When a cyberattack forced a widely used learning platform offline during final exams in May 2026, universities across the country canceled, postponed, and rescheduled examinations, and, as the Associated Press reported, faculty relocated course materials into shared drives and documents so that students could continue working. Because the coordination itself resided inside the platform that had failed, institutions were left to improvise. Operating from the cloud on a “five nines” uptime record, Veoci ensures that the response never waits on the systems that failed.

"When an incident hits, the clock isn't your only problem, finding who needs to know, getting them moving, and making sure everyone is working from the same plan is. Capstone ITDR closes that gap. The preparedness your team put in place doesn't sit in a binder; it activates. Notifications go out, tasks start, and the recovery runs in the same place it was planned — in seconds, not hours" said Paul Rector, Director of Education at Veoci.

Capstone ITDR is purposely built around what a recovery team has to do under pressure:

• Launch drill-tested plans instantly. No hunting for documentation mid-incident.
• Work around downed systems. Manual procedures run in Veoci while core systems stay offline.
• See your assets. Real-time inventory of what the recovery depends on.
• Run the cyber side of the incident. Cyber response sits alongside the vendor coordination recovery depends on.
• Pull the EOC in. Operations sees the same activation the technical team does.
• Track every RTO and RPO. Progress measured against each system's numbers during the incident, not the after-action review.

Dr. Sukh Grewal, CEO of Veoci, said that "with this launch, we reduce the stress and damage of IT outages at a campus. System failures happen. With Capstone ITDR, we provide software from the cloud for a systematic recovery, mitigation and communication - not just for the systems team but also for the thousands of end users. A ransomware outage during registration is not a generic IT problem, and Veoci addresses it directly."

Running the recovery in one workspace generates the audit trail automatically. Institutions build those records during active response instead of reconstructing events weeks later from email threads, which is what grant reviewers and regulatory bodies ask for when they request framework mapping. Capstone ITDR supports compliance workflows for FERPA (20 U.S.C. § 1232g), the GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 C.F.R. Part 314), the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's Respond and Recover functions, and state breach notification law.

Capstone ITDR is available now for Higher Education Institutions. To request a demo or learn more, visit https://veoci.com/higher-education#cs-itdr.

About Veoci

Veoci is the leader in collaboration, response, continuity, and operations software. Over 400 organizations use Veoci to manage incidents and continuity programs in the same system they plan them in. Veoci is designed for institutions and organizations of every size and complexity.

Founder-led, operated and self-funded for 15+ years, the US-based company remains financially strong and independent. Veoci backs its platform and mass notification tools with a dedicated team of practitioners, custom solutions development and 24/7 support.

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