Backups Are Recovery Promises
Distinguish having backups from having a tested ransomware recovery capability.
Why this matters A backup is only valuable if it can restore the right system, to the right point in time, inside the business window, without reintroducing the compromise. NIST recovery guidance pushes teams to plan recovery as an event process, not a storage feature. That means defining recovery objectives, dependencies, roles, communications, and validation criteria before the incident. The mechanism is proof. Ransomware turns vague backup confidence into a sequence of hard questions: Is there an immutable or offline copy? Can the recovery team authenticate if identity services are degraded? Do we know which clean point predates intrusion? Can…
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