WW Cyber-Recovery 2023
StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, November 30,2023
Cyberattack is front and center among the biggest threats faced by organizations worldwide. Cyberattackers spare no organization regardless of size, industry, geography, or political boundary. Unfortunately, there is no end in sight for cybercrime because it is simply too profitable for the perpetrators.
For victims, the consequences can include lost revenue, permanently lost customers, lost employee productivity, regulatory fines, and unrecoverable data, not to mention the ransom cost itself. Perhaps worse, some organizations face shareholder lawsuits and class action lawsuits in the wake of the attack.
In the early days of ransomware attacks, organizations relied on data backup images to recover. As attackers became more sophisticated and comprehensive and attacks began with wiping out the backup images, IT teams began declaring disaster responses to cyberevents. However, there are important differences between DRs and cyber-recoveries. Table 1 makes the comparison. It does not attempt to capture every step of either process, but rather to illustrate that DR efforts alone are likely to yield poor results for cyberevents.