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Cyber Resilience Expert: Backups Aren’t a Recovery Strategy Until You Prove They Work

Having backups does not necessarily mean an enterprise can recover from a cyberattack. The more important question is whether those backups can be converted into a functioning, trustworthy business quickly enough when production systems, identities or even the recovery infrastructure itself have been compromised.

That was a central warning from technology author and longtime Microsoft MVP Brien Posey during “Building a Resilient Enterprise Before, During & After a Breach,” the opening session of today’s The Modern Enterprise’s Cyberattack Survival Guide Summit, being made available for on-demand replay thanks to Rubrik, which also presented a session and shared these statistics:

His broader point was that cyber recovery has to be designed around business survival rather than the simple existence of backup copies. That means deciding what matters most before an incident, proving recovery-time assumptions, isolating recovery systems from attackers and making sure the organization is not restoring compromised data straight back into production.