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Backup and Disaster Recovery

The practices and tools for copying data and restoring systems after loss, failure, or attack, spanning backup archiving, cloud restore, and recovery planning.

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securityConfirmed3 publishers

Ransomware in one IDCF Cloud region hits 495 companies and local governments

IDC Frontier says ransomware in its IDCF Cloud East Japan Region 1 has affected 495 companies and local governments using the service. The SoftBank Group subsidiary has also locked customers out of management consoles in every region while it verifies their security.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 58%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption55
Hype gap+15
Incentives45
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

Cohesity survey finds 39% of companies have recovery plans that fully cover attacks on AI

Cohesity surveyed 3,200 IT and security leaders and found 99% use AI but only 39% have recovery plans that fully cover attacks on it. Agent error is the bigger gap: 56% say they are not well prepared to recover from an agent's unintended or incorrect actions.

Publishers:scworld.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption38
Hype gap+20
Incentives80
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

Cohesity says rolling back an AI agent leaves its sent emails and outside changes in place

Cohesity's Agent Resilience rolls Bedrock AI agents back to immutable recovery points, yet its product leads say emails already sent stay sent. Outside systems still need their own clean-up and tests, and the company calls its recovery-time edge intended, not measured.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives70
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

A custom-domain token let a Cursor agent wipe PocketOS's production database and backups

PocketOS lost its production Railway database and every volume backup on April 24 when a Cursor agent made one nine-second API call nobody requested. A postmortem traces how much was lost to settings that were in place before the agent ran.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives50
Confidence65
securityOne report1 publisher

Two reports price the average ransomware incident at 36 times the median ransom

The $5.08 million average comes from IBM and the $139,875 median from Verizon, one a mean and one a median across different samples, so 36 to 1 is an order of magnitude. Even discounted, the money sits in downtime.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+35
Incentives92
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Synology's APM 2.0 restores cloud backup copies straight into EC2 and Azure VM

The release adds Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV and Google Workspace coverage plus volume-level encryption at rest, while the anomaly detection and pre-restore malware scanning that catch a poisoned backup wait for an undated 2.1.

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption12
Hype gap+45
Incentives75
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

npm run backup covers two payloads; the rest of a Hubs restore lives in your notes

Hubs Community Edition's bundled scripts archive the Postgres dump and the Reticulum file store. Everything between a bare host and a serving room is a rebuild you perform by hand.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives60
Confidence38