{"id":7363,"date":"2026-04-30T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:48:57","slug":"ransomware-demands-more-than-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/ransomware-demands-more-than-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Demands More Than Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Druva’s Badri Raghunathan offers commentary on how ransomware demands more than backups. <\/strong><\/em>This article originally appeared in Insight Jam<\/a>, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ransomware\u2019s gotten easier to launch and harder to contain. Even teams with solid controls can still end up with encrypted systems and reinfections upon recovery. That\u2019s not a reason to give up on prevention. It\u2019s a reason to stop treating backup and recovery as a compliance-driven insurance problem and start treating it as an operational capability.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When ransomware hits, the gap usually isn\u2019t a lack of tools. It\u2019s the ever-evolving threat landscape and a lack of repeatable, verifiable cyber recovery processes. Recovery becomes a scramble: Which systems are safe? Who has the authority to shut things down? What do we restore first? How do we avoid reintroducing the attacker during rebuild?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A practical ransomware recovery strategy comes down to three phases: prepare before the incident, control the blast radius during it, and restore in a way that\u2019s measurable, verifiable, and less likely to repeat:<\/span><\/p>\n