Backed up is not resilient: Why most enterprises are rehearsing the wrong recovery
The backup completed. The restore worked. The servers are back online. And yet the bank cannot process a payment, the factory cannot ship an order and the help desk cannot log a single employee in. That gap between a technical recovery and a working business is where many organisations will discover, at the worst possible moment, that being backed up and being resilient are two different things. It is also the central finding of Cohesity’s 2026 Global Cyber Resilience Report, which surveyed 3,200 IT and security decision-makers across 12 countries and found a striking mismatch between how organisations plan to recover and what recovery actually requires.
Johnny Karam, VP and Managing Director, International Emerging Region at Cohesity,has spent his career helping enterprises through that transition. In written responses, he argued that the industry’s definition of recovery needs to change, and that the people who must lead the change sit...
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