Your cloud strategy is incomplete without a cyber recovery plan
Cloud adoption has made systems faster and more scalable — but as a recent article by Archana Choudhary – VP at Deutsche Bank and a recognized PM expert in strategy execution- on CIO.com points out, it hasn’t eliminated one of the biggest risks in modern IT: the ability to recover when something goes seriously wrong. Choudhary argues that many organizations mistake cloud migration for resilience. Dashboards may look healthy and security tools may be in place, but that can create a false sense of safety if there’s no real plan for recovering from a full-scale cyberattack. The key shift in mindset is moving from prevention to recovery. Since no system is fully immune to attacks — especially ransomware — the more important question becomes: how quickly can a business recover, and how safely?
The article highlights how modern attacks often target identities and backup systems, not just networks. Misconfigurations, overly broad access, and compromised credentials can allow attackers to move through cloud environments and even corrupt backups before a ransomware event is triggered. That’s why recovery itself becomes a business-critical KPI. Metrics like RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) are often treated as technical details, but in reality they define how much downtime and data loss a business can tolerate. A modern cyber recovery strategy, the article argues, needs isolated recovery environments, immutable backups, clean data validation, automated recovery workflows, and regular testing. The bottom line is simple: cloud gives you availability, but not guaranteed resilience. Without a tested cyber recovery plan, even a well-architected cloud environment can still fail when it matters most.
