Cyber resilience
Active Directory recovery: Planning backup access
Directory services sit underneath almost everything else in a corporate environment, which makes their loss unusually disruptive and their recovery unusually ...
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Cyber resilience
Backup recovery dependencies: What must come back first?
Recovery plans are usually written per system. Each application has a recovery objective, a backup schedule and a restore procedure, and each one has been ...
Cyber resilience
Ransomware dwell time: Choosing backup retention
Ransomware dwell time matters because the most recent backup may already contain changes made by an attacker. Choosing backup retention means keeping enough ...
Cyber resilience
Backup deletion protection: Who can erase your copies?
Backup deletion protection prevents someone from removing recovery data before its required retention period ends. It depends on the permissions assigned to ...
Cyber resilience
Backup credential security: Separating access paths
Backup credential security means controlling the passwords, access keys and identities used to create, manage and restore backups. Its purpose is to prevent a ...
Cyber resilience
Restore speed is the new RTO
Most recovery time objectives were written for planned maintenance and single-system failures: one database server dies, one volume is restored from last ...
Cyber resilience
Building a ransomware recovery clean room
After a ransomware attack, the fastest path to recovery is also the most dangerous one: restore the last backup straight back into the production environment ...