Considering the advanced techniques of today’s threat actors, it’s not a matter of if, but when a breach event will occur, no matter how much investment and emphasis the business has placed in resistance, according to John Anthony Smith, Founder and Chief Security Officer of Fenix24, the industry-leading ransomware recovery and restoration company. 

Session attendees will learn that cybersecurity providers can offer the assurance of a quick and complete recovery from compromised and encrypted data. Assured recovery can be achieved through the proper orchestration of data backup technology. Moreover, survivability is predicated on multiple copies of backups that are immutable. Immutability ensures that backups cannot be altered, deleted or encrypted, thereby minimizing operational downtime. This is a reliable and proven recovery path through which Fenix24 has experienced through thousands of breach recovery operations. 

Rather than only focusing on preventing threat actors from getting in (resistance), an organization must first ensure its ability to recover all data (recovery). It’s what John Anthony Smith describes as “solving in reverse.” He asserts that security providers should prioritize backup technology as their primary weapon of cyber defense against threat actors, including the actions, either malicious or accidental, by people inside the organization.