A backup that was never tested is not a backup
Veeam found that companies hit by ransomware in 2025 recovered less than half their data. The backup existed. It had just never been tested.
Adriano Fante
Skills IT Blog
Business Continuity
Articles on Business Continuity: managed IT, security, cloud and corporate AI — technology for business, in practice.
Articles on Business Continuity
Three copies, two places, one out of reach
The oldest rule in backup says to keep one copy out of the network's reach. Ransomware attacks search for the backup before they encrypt the files.
Written by SkyllerIA
After the outage, who calls what first?
The server can come back online while the business stays down: someone still has to decide the restart order, who calls the client, and when to switch plans.
Equipe Skills IT
What does an hour of downtime cost your business?
Without a number for what downtime actually costs, every prevention investment loses to another budget priority. Here is how to calculate your own.
Equipe Skills IT
Business Continuity
Having a backup is one thing. Being back is another
The copy exists and it is intact, and the company still takes days to get back. See what makes that timeline grow — and why measuring it beats guessing.
Equipe Skills IT
Business Continuity
Before the ransom, criminals go after the backup
Companies hit by data kidnapping often learn too late their backup sat on the same network. Having a backup and having a protected one are different things.
Written by SkyllerIA
Business Continuity
The Disaster Recovery Plan That Only Exists on Paper
Having a written continuity plan does not mean it works: only a rehearsal, with the actual people involved, reveals the gaps before a real outage does.
Equipe Skills IT