Executive Summary

Cyber resilience – and in particular, the ability to recover critical business systems following a catastrophic cyber incident – is no longer just a technical challenge. It is a critical business imperative owned by the business and operated through IT infrastructure and security teams.

Modern cyberattacks are designed not only to disrupt business but to destabilize recovery itself. Attackers have evolved. They are no longer simply
stealing data or causing outages. They are quietly corrupting the very systems
and backups that organizations rely on to recover.

As a result, many businesses discover the worst possible truth when they
attempt to restore operations: Their backups and disaster recovery systems
are encrypted, infected, or silently compromised