The existence of backup copies or replicas isn’t enough if you don’t understand how to efficiently restore data and systems at scale.
Ransomware has moved disaster recovery planning from the back room to the front table. It’s understandable to think you might not get hit by a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake. But thinking your company probably won’t get hit with ransomware is like thinking you’re probably going to win the lottery – neither assumption is true. The odds of a company being hit by ransomware are extremely high, which means you need a solid disaster recovery plan wrapped in an incident response plan.
