Why conventional disaster recovery won’t save you from ransomware

The conventional formula for maintaining business continuity in the face of unexpected IT disruptions is as follows: Back up your data. Make a recovery plan. Test the recovery plan periodically. That approach may work well enough if your primary concern is defending against risks like server failures or data center outages caused by natural disasters. But in the present age of widespread ransomware attacks, conventional backup and recovery planning aren’t always enough. Instead, what businesses need is a backup and recovery plan that includes cyber incident recovery. Here’s a primer on what that means and why it has become a… [Continue Reading]