How To Start Planning For Disaster Recovery
HelpNet Security, January 4th, 2023
There is a famous quote I often think about at 3am on a Sunday morning as I am working with a client to recover from a large-scale cybersecurity incident: 'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.'
It is painfully obvious which clients have done some disaster recovery pre-planning and which haven't.
In the majority of incident response work, recovery costs as much as identification, containment, and eradication put together. However, the cost in terms of people, stress, and reputational damage is unfathomable.
I have witnessed people walking out of jobs in anger, heard language thrown across a room that would make a sailor blush, and once saw the CEO of a law firm punch their own CFO - all because of the stress of trying to get a business back up and running after a major cybersecurity breach.