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When a Backup Is No Longer Enough: Why Cyber Resilience Has Become a Boardroom Issue
At a time when a cyberattack or technical failure can halt production, logistics, sales, or access to critical data within minutes, data protection and business continuity are no longer topics confined to server rooms. They have become matters for executive boards.
For company leadership, the key question is no longer whether data is backed up, but how quickly the organization can resume operations after an incident. Photo: ChatGPT
Digitalization has brought organizations faster processes, greater volumes of data, and more connected supply chains. Yet this same dependence on information systems means that even a short outage can result in lost revenue, delayed deliveries, disrupted customer services, additional costs, and a loss of trust among customers and business partners.
As a result, cyber resilience has become a key component of business risk management. Traditional backups remain essential, but they do not by themselves answer the question every organization must ask: How much data can we afford to lose, and how quickly do we need to restore critical services?
Photo: ADD archive
Taja Šerjak, CEO of ADD, emphasizes:
“Today, leadership teams are no longer asking only whether their data is backed up. The key question is how quickly the company can return to normal operations after an attack or outage. This is directly linked to revenue, contractual obligations, customer trust, and management accountability.”
The Difference Between Data Backup and Business Continuity
Most organizations already have backup processes in place. However, in practice, there can be a significant difference between saying “we have a copy of the data” and being able to say “we can continue operating.” Traditional backups are typically performed at scheduled intervals, while restoring an entire IT environment is often slow, manual, and dependent on coordination between multiple teams.
For business-critical applications where orders, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare services, or financial transactions are processed in real time, restoring operations from backups is often neither fast nor efficient enough. As a result, organizations are increasingly complementing traditional backup strategies with business continuity solutions that enable near-instant recovery and significantly reduce data loss.
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When Minutes Matter, Not Days
One solution addressing this challenge is HPE Zerto Software, a platform designed for continuous data protection, rapid disaster recovery, and cyber resilience.
Unlike conventional approaches based on periodic backups, HPE Zerto Software continuously captures data changes and replicates them to a secondary location in real time. This enables organizations to restore systems to virtually any point in time, with recovery accuracy measured in seconds.
The business value is clear: fewer lost transactions, orders, or records, and significantly shorter recovery times for business applications and entire IT services. This is no longer merely a technical metric, but a key element of organizational resilience.
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Boštjan Kosi, Director of HPE operated by Selectium, explains:
“HPE Zerto Software is designed for environments where business continuity is strategically important. Through continuous replication, recovery within minutes, ransomware detection, and the ability to perform regular testing without impacting production systems, it helps organizations minimize the consequences of outages, errors, and cyberattacks.”
According to Boštjan Kosi, organizations must view data protection as a business strategy rather than solely an IT function: “When an incident occurs, minutes matter, not days. That is why organizations need more than backups. They need a tested recovery plan, clearly defined priorities for critical applications, and technology that enables predictable and verifiable business recovery.”
Ransomware Has Changed the Risk Equation
Modern cyberattacks are no longer focused solely on stealing data. Their goal is often to disrupt operations and increase pressure on management.
With traditional backup approaches, one of the greatest challenges is determining which backup remains clean, especially if an attacker has been present in the environment for days or even weeks.
Solutions such as HPE Zerto Software provide the ability to restore entire business-critical applications and IT services rapidly to a precise point in time before the incident occurred. Organizations can quickly identify the period before the infection or failure and restore applications with significantly reduced data loss.
For IT teams, this means less pressure and more time to focus on security activities that protect the environment. For leadership teams, it means greater certainty during a crisis, faster decision-making, and a reduced business impact.
A Recovery Plan Is Only Valuable If It Is Tested
A disaster recovery plan is useful only if it is regularly tested.
In practice, such tests are often performed too infrequently because they require coordination between teams, reserved testing windows, and caution regarding potential impacts on production systems.
One of the advantages of HPE Zerto Software is the ability to test recovery procedures easily without affecting the production environment. Organizations can validate their plans, processes, and responsiveness while gaining realistic insight into their actual level of preparedness.
Following testing, HPE Zerto Software also generates detailed reports. This is particularly valuable for reporting to management, shareholders, customers, and auditors.
As Šerjak notes: “Cyber resilience is not a project that is completed once and then forgotten. It is a discipline that must be continuously tested, measured, and improved. Technology is important, but it is equally important for organizations to have clear procedures, defined responsibilities, and a realistic understanding of how quickly they can resume operations.”
Regulations Are Bringing Cyber Resilience to the Executive Agenda
Regulatory pressure is further accelerating this trend.
European and national regulations, including NIS2, Slovenia’s ZInfV-1, and the financial sector regulation DORA, are raising expectations regarding cyber risk management, incident response, process testing, and business continuity.
For management teams, this means that the resilience of information systems is becoming an important component of corporate governance and executive responsibility, rather than merely a technical concern for IT departments.
Learn more at the free webinar “When a Backup Is No Longer Enough”. Register today.
Resilience Reveals Itself Only When Something Goes Wrong
Under normal circumstances, cyber resilience often appears to be an expense. During an incident, however, it becomes a measure of organizational maturity.
That is when it becomes clear whether a company understands its critical business processes, has established recovery priorities, defined responsibilities, and can make rapid, evidence-based decisions.
The question is therefore no longer whether an organization will face a major outage, system failure, or cyberattack. The real question is how prepared it will be when that happens.
Organizations that integrate data protection, system recovery, and business continuity into their overall risk management strategy and adopt advanced solutions such as HPE Zerto Software will be able to recover faster, minimize the impact of incidents, and preserve the trust of customers, partners, and shareholders.
During the webinar, attendees will learn how to reduce business risks and ensure higher availability of critical systems, even during outages or cyber incidents.
You will discover practical approaches to:
- Reducing recovery times
- Minimizing data loss
- Strengthening cyber resilience
Participation is free. Register now.
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