Recovery time is no longer the most important resilience metric

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By Shiva Pillay, General Manager & Senior Vice President, Worldwide, Veeam Software Data and AI solutions and Sandeep Bhambure, Vice President & Managing Director, India & SAARC, Veeam Software

An AI agent can make hundreds of legitimate changes before anyone discovers the one action that caused an incident. Restoring yesterday’s systems may remove the bad change, but it may also erase everything the business did correctly afterwards. That is why conventional recovery time targets are becoming an incomplete measure of resilience.

When AI shifts from advising employees to acting on their behalf, resilience must increasingly be measured by precision recovery: what an organisation can identify, reverse and recover, not simply what it can bring back online.

Precision recovery, tailored to individual agents and workflows, can give teams greater confidence to expand their use of AI, providing a safety net when something goes wrong and reducing the risk that a single...

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