Cyber-compromised data recovery: The more likely disaster recovery use case

John Beattie and Michael Shandrowski
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John Beattie: Principal Consultant, Sungard Availability Services, USA
Michael Shandrowski: Principal Consultant, Sungard Availability Services, USA

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2020, vol. 15, issue 2, 114-126

Abstract: To extort a ransom payment, ransomware actors must make the threat sufficiently compelling that payment seems like the only option. This is achieved by encrypting or disabling a company’s data replicas and backups as well as its production data — data that are essential to the organisation’s success. To prevent this happening, it is essential to extend one’s thinking beyond the organisation’s cyber security incident response plan and disaster recovery programme and give active consideration to a cyber incident recovery risk management (CIR-RM) programme. This paper explores what this requires, including the right thinking, the right approach, the right team and the right plan.

Keywords: cyber crime; cyber attack; ransomware; malware; data recovery; disaster recovery; immutable backups; cyber incident recovery; cyber incident response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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