In recent years, ransomware attacks have become increasingly frequent and sophisticated, posing an increasing threat to organizations of all sizes and industries. The impact of a ransomware attack can be devastating, causing operational disruption, financial loss, reputational damage and potential legal and regulatory repercussions. Therefore, it’s critical for executives to have a clear and comprehensive plan for ransomware recovery that can minimize the impact of an attack and restore business operations as quickly as possible. It’s not possible to prevent every cyberattack, so organizations need to make recovery a priority. Backups are widely established as one of the most effective defenses against ransomware attacks. Having a recent, validated and secure backup increases the possibility of successful recovery while reducing downtime and minimizing the possibility of data loss. Historically, disaster recovery (DR) planning has been viewed as part of an overall infrastructure plan. This then created assumptions around the integrity and availability of data during a crisis. Risk calculations have been based on antiquated statistics for data recovery, where only 3% to 5% of… ...

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