Ransomware-proof, air-gapped copies with quarterly restore drills — a 15-minute recovery objective, tested and reported.
Ransomware crews target backups first — encrypt the copies, then name their price. Immutable backups take that leverage away: once written, a backup cannot be altered or deleted by anyone, including an attacker holding admin credentials, until its retention clock expires.
A backup you haven't restored is a hope, not a plan. We run restore drills every quarter against real recovery scenarios — a corrupted DMS, a locked file server, a deleted mailbox — and report the actual times. Your recovery objective isn't aspirational; it's rehearsed.
Every drill produces a timed report — the document your cyber-insurance carrier asks for at renewal.