Restore now or prove the reinfection path first?
Choose a recovery posture that balances service restoration against persistence and reinfection risk.
RECOVERY DECISION SCENARIO Backups are available, but the original access path and backup-admin exposure are not fully explained yet. What should the incident lead do? Restore only after the suspected access path is closed or compensated for, the backup is validated, and enhanced monitoring is attached to the recovered service. Strong move. It accepts urgency but sets a minimum trust threshold before service is reintroduced. Restore immediately because clean backups are the definition of recovery. Too optimistic. Backups solve data state, not necessarily attacker access or persistence. Wait for complete root-cause certainty before restoring anything at all. This sounds rigorous…
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