Traditional backup solutions fail when sophisticated ransomware attacks exploit the very infrastructure designed to protect data. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides the theory - identify, protect, detect, respond and recover - but unpredictable attack patterns, spreading blast radius, and the challenge of identifying clean recovery points expose critical gaps in conventional approaches.

Organizations need resilience architectures that combine real-time replication, intelligent anomaly detection and true air-gapped isolation. The challenge isn't just protecting data - it's maintaining absolute control through immutable storage, zero-trust environments, and physically isolated recovery vaults.

Led by Egon Van Dongen, systems engineering manager for EMEA at Zerto, the session will cover:

• How to combine technology and practices to address modern cyberthreats;
• How an air-gapped recovery can achieve unprecedented results;
• A real-world ransomware case study featuring a polymorphic mirror attack - and why traditional disaster recovery couldn't help.