10152026 - TechTalk Recap: Awareness Won’t Save You, Recovery Will

We closed out Cyber Awareness Month with a direct message: awareness matters, but recovery is what keeps the business running when an attack lands.

I was joined by Rick Orloff, CISO at Everpure, and Chris Brandt, Consulting Field Solutions Architect for Cybersecurity and Resilience, to discuss how AI is changing the threat landscape, why traditional disaster recovery plans fall short during cyber extortion, and what a resilient recovery architecture looks like in practice.

What you missed:

• AI is shrinking the response window. The time between detection and damage can now be measured in seconds. Teams need controls and recovery processes that can move at machine speed.
• Disaster recovery is not the same as cyber recovery. In a cyberattack, the facility may be fine—but the compromised data can replicate from production to the DR site. A second copy is not enough if it is also infected.
• Build an isolated recovery environment. A protected copy needs separate identity and access controls, no path from production, and immutable snapshots that cannot be easily deleted by an attacker.
• Define your minimum viable business. If every workload is a priority, none of them is. Start by identifying tier-zero infrastructure, tier-one applications, and the business processes that must be restored first.
• Test the plan before the incident. Recovering one application in 15 minutes proves very little if hundreds need to come back and the network is unavailable. Practice at scale, reduce dependencies on a small group of people, and plan communications for an outage.

The practical takeaway: a recovery strategy is only credible when it is isolated, prioritized, and proven through testing. The goal is not just to restore data—it is to restore the business.

Watch the full webinar HERE