Explain IT: Season 8, Episode 13: Cyber Resiliency - The Prevention, Response and Recovery

Is your business truly cyber resilient, or are you one malicious click away from a system lockdown?

In this episode of Softcat's Explain It podcast, host Helen Gidney is joined by James Blake from Cohesity and Gary Hawkins from Softcat to work through what modern data protection and recovery actually looks like, and why it differs from traditional disaster recovery.

They discuss why cyber resilience can't be bought off the shelf, how conventional DR approaches risk reintroducing threats into a recovered environment, and why IT, security, and the C-suite must work as one rather than in separate lanes.

James and Gary also break down where to start before an attack happens: baselining your IT maturity against NIST and ISO frameworks, treating your backup platforms as a security layer in their own right. As well as building the offline playbooks, digital jump bags, and clean-room environments that determine whether you survive the first 72 hours of a ransomware incident.

The episode closes on AI, specifically how cybercriminals now use LLMs to find and exploit software vulnerabilities in under 24 hours, and what that means for how quickly organisations need to be able to respond.

Hosted by Helen Gidney, Head of Architecture at Softcat, the Explain IT podcast is where we discuss, debate and demystify tech in simple, jargon-free language.

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