In 2024, companies will adopt more predictive risk management strategies to not only attempt to limit malicious threats and breaches, but also comply with growing cybersecurity regulations. Ransomware has become one of the top threats facing organisations today and is being deployed in ways that are unparalleled.The reality is that ransomware is everywhere, including the very backups that are meant to be the last line of defence against an attack, and breaches are rapidly becoming the norm.
Recovery readiness and testing are critical in enabling you to become cyber resilient and weather an attack without critical disruption to business as usual.While the ability to recover from an attack is vital, the status quo often falls short. Recovery testing is both complex and expensive, and building out a physical or virtual recovery environment to test critical application recovery is an unattainable goal for most businesses.
The competence to rehearse a recovery is a vital component in ensuring confidence in being able to recover data safely and swiftly, which in turn is an essential element in achieving the level of cyber resilience required. However, because of the cost and complexity involved in this, many organisations rely on their Disaster Recovery plans, simulations, tabletop exercises and checklists, which do not enable the people involved in a recovery to practice the event.