The Cyber Recovery Gap: What Your Backups Aren’t Telling You

How Backup Validation Complements XDR, EDR, and DR to Close the Recovery Gap

Backup success logs may be green, but that doesn’t mean your systems are recoverable. Ransomware and malware often live undetected in environments for weeks, silently making their way into backup sets and leaving organizations with no clean recovery path when it counts.

Join Recovery Point and the Disaster Recovery Journal to explore this “Cyber Recovery Gap” — the dangerous space between having backups and being able to recover clean, malware-free systems with confidence. You’ll learn why traditional backup and DR strategies fall short, how most backup tools miss critical validation steps, and what it takes to close that gap using cleanroom-based system testing, malware scans, and recoverability scoring.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why traditional backup success metrics can give a false sense of security
• How ransomware dwell time and dormant threats can impact your backups
• What the Cyber Recovery Gap is, and how to identify it in your environment
• How automated backup validation enhances XDR, EDR, and DR strategies
• The benefits of cleanroom-based testing, power-on validation, and recoverability scoring
• Practical steps to move from assumed recovery to provable resilience

Whether you’re responsible for infrastructure, cybersecurity, or business continuity, this session will help you rethink what it means to be truly recovery-ready.