The Blind Restore: Why Recovery Is the New Incident Response
The next ransomware crisis won't be the breach. It'll be the recovery. Join Chevron, SentinelOne, and Eon for a live discussion on what to do next.
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The restore is where the playbook breaks
Most ransomware playbooks assume the same finale: detect, contain, restore from backup.
Backups get poisoned weeks before anyone notices. Incident response teams rehydrate massive databases and accidentally restore the attacker right back into the environment. Recovery becomes the second incident.
AI is making the problem worse from two directions. Attackers who used to need nation-state resources now run automated campaigns at the same level of sophistication. And inside your own walls, hundreds of employees are using AI agents to interact with cloud infrastructure, where one bad prompt can wipe a production database. Malicious or accidental, the effect on your data is the same.
Watch to learn what clean recovery actually looks like when prevention isn't enough.
What you'll take away:
- How AI changed the threat profile. What attackers are actually doing with AI, and why the same tools your engineers use to ship faster also create new ways to lose production data overnight.
- Why the blind restore catches mature teams off guard. The operational pattern that turns a recovery into a second breach, and how to break the cycle before you trigger the runbook.
- What active backup posture looks like in practice. Anomaly detection on managed databases, mass row deletion alerts, and querying backups for clean recovery points without rehydrating petabytes.
- The questions a CISO should be asking this quarter. Concrete asks for your backup and IR teams to pressure-test recovery before you need it.