Cyber recovery.

Your backups may be in place, but would they actually get your organisation back up and running? It’s only after an outage or cyberattack that you discover whether your data are usable, your recovery sequence is correct and critical systems remain accessible.

In this episode, Tom Jessen speaks with Peter Gommers, Senior Presales Consultant at PQR, a Bechtle company, and Elles van Blanken, Project Manager at a.s.r., about recoveries that can take months, passwords that turn out to be inaccessible and the preparation required before recovery can even begin.

Successful backups may provide reassurance, but missing data or slow recovery times often only become apparent when you need them most. At a.s.r., a storage incident highlighted the difference between restoring an individual system and recovering entire business processes. Recent events at Ahold Delhaize (Albert Heijn) also demonstrated just how significant the impact can be.

In this blog, Peter and Elles share the lessons they’ve learned from real-world experience. Why isn’t the most recent backup necessarily the right one after a cyberattack? How do you decide what needs to be restored first? And why should a recovery exercise measure not only the restore itself, but also everything that needs to happen beforehand?

Assess your recovery preparedness in seven steps. Work through the checklist for a single critical business process. Review your access to recovery resources, the reliability of recovery points and the controls used to verify that the business process is fully operational again.

Use the questions to help IT, security and business stakeholders distinguish between what appears to be in place and what has actually been tested.

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