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Ransomware, Risk, And Recovery

Why You Need to Take A Hard Look At Your Corporate Recovery Plan

By Mickey Bresman, CEO, Semperis

What we as IT and security professionals worry about when planning for disaster recovery has evolved
over time.

At first, the major concerns were natural (e.g. hurricanes) or man-made (power failure) physical disasters.
After 9/11, we included other physical disasters such as airplanes or explosives to the risk list. Today we
have COVID-19, which has emptied not datacenters but offices as entire economies have struggled to
suddenly work remotely. Along the way, insider-triggered logical disasters – whether deliberately through
an angry employee or an “oops” admin mistake – were also added to the list.

In the last couple of years, however, one cyber threat has eclipsed all the others: denial of availability
(DoA) malware, including wiperware and ransomware. If you don’t update your business continuity /
disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategy to be “cyber first” to account for this threat, you’re needlessly exposing
your organization to potentially catastrophic risk.

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