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RANSOMWARE & RECOVERYFOR CISOSDecember 20255 min read

A backup that completes is not a recovery.

Most teams learn mid-incident that restore speed and immutability were never actually tested. Here is how to prove recovery before you need it.

A green checkmark on a backup job is one of the most dangerous signals in IT. It tells you data was copied. It tells you nothing about whether you can restore it, how long that restore will take, or whether an attacker can quietly encrypt or delete the backup itself.

Recovery is a measured time, not a checkbox

The metric that matters is time-to-restore under real conditions: full systems, real data volumes, real network constraints. Not a synthetic test of a single file. Immutable storage such as ExaGrid, paired with managed recovery drills, turns recovery from an assumption into a documented, rehearsed runbook.

If you have never timed a full restore, you do not have a recovery plan. You have a hope.

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