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Your Business Continuity Plan Was Built for Accidents. Ransomware Is Not an Accident.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans are designed for natural outages and accidents, but ransomware attackers deliberately target backup systems and data to maximize damage and extract ransom. Organizations often conflate BC/DR readiness with ransomware resilience, missing the critical need for defense-specific protections. Effective ransomware preparedness requires strategies beyond traditional continuity planning, such as immutable backups, segmented networks, and incident response procedures tailored to extortion threats.
Why it matters: Organizations relying on standard BC/DR plans without ransomware-specific defenses face material risk of prolonged recovery, data loss, and ransom pressure; practitioners should audit backup isolation, access controls, and response procedures designed explicitly for ransomware scenarios.
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ransomware
Your Business Continuity Plan Was Built for Accidents. Ransomware Is Not an Accident.
Traditional business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans assume accidental failures but do not account for ransomware attackers who deliberately target backup systems to prevent recovery. Ransomware resilience requires different controls and assumptions than conventional BC/DR frameworks. Organizations must design backup strategies that treat ransomware as an intentional attack rather than an infrastructure failure.
Why it matters: Operations, infrastructure, and security teams must reassess backup and recovery architectures to defend against ransomware actors who actively seek to destroy recovery capabilities, not just protect against accidents.
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