Preparing for cybersecurity disasters

Strategies to make sure you are ready

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This next post in my series on Cybersecurity for Executives covers disaster recovery, resiliency, and backups. This topic introduces another question you can ask your security team — but It’s more than just “Do we have backups?”

Backups are not simple

Sure, you’ve heard it a hundred times before if you have spent any length of time in IT, security, or dealing with systems and data. Back it up. Make a copy in case something goes wrong so you can restore it all.

It sounds simple. It’s not. Creating adequate backups and the ability to restore systems efficiently requires forethought and planning, threat modeling, access management, encryption, and lifecycle management. Backup and recovery routines should be run by those who pay excellent attention to details. The one day your backups fail could be the day you need them. Who is monitoring and testing your backups?