What is copied, who can wipe it, and whether a restore has been proven.
A green job in the backup console is not evidence you can recover.
The backup is now a target.
Ransomware crews go after the backup and the hypervisor, not only the file server. Backup consoles get the same class of exploited bugs as the servers they protect. Insurers and boards are starting to ask for the restore test, not the logo on the appliance.
We do not need you to replace the product you already bought. We need to know whether it would survive the same week as production, and whether anyone besides the usual admin can run a restore. This sits next to Enterprise when a large organization needs an outside opinion.
The same terms apply internationally. Remote review of configuration, logs and a witnessed restore is the default.
Inventory
What is in backup, what is not, and what sits only on a laptop or a single NAS. Include Microsoft 365, line-of-business apps and the hypervisor if you run one.
Isolation
Offline, immutable or air-gapped copies. Domain-admin credentials that can wipe both production and backup in one night are a finding, not a footnote.
Restore proof
A dated restore of a named system, with time-to-recover written down. We can watch or facilitate. “It should work” is not the answer.
Copies, people, the ransomware path.
- 3-2-1 in practice. Three copies, two media, one off-site or offline — marked where the chain is only on paper.
- Management planes and SaaS. vCenter, NAS, cloud mail and the backup console itself.
- People. Who can restore at 2 a.m. if the usual person is away. MFA on the console.
- Ransomware path. Can the same account that encrypts files also delete snapshots?
No vendor switch required.
- A requirement to switch backup vendors.
- A promise that every file is recoverable.
- Managed backup-as-a-service unless we quote that separately.
- A substitute for an assessment of the production systems.
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