Cyber Resilience Requires More than a Backup
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Scality's Paul Speciale argues cyber resilience depends on fast, trusted restores at scale, not just immutable backups.
In this Security Boulevard contributed piece, Paul Speciale argues that immutable backups and long retention are necessary but do not ensure recovery, since restore speed and clean data determine whether recovery time objectives can be met.
Large-scale recovery after ransomware depends on aggregate throughput and parallel restore streams.
He recommends disaster recovery tests that prove representative data volumes can be restored in time, tiering backup storage by its role in recovery, and measuring restore throughput, scaling and the trustworthiness of restored data.