For many years, enterprise continuity planning meant getting ready for anomalous occasions like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or regional energy outages. In anticipation of those uncommon disasters, IT groups constructed playbooks, ran annual exams, crossed their fingers, and hoped they’d by no means have to make use of them.
In recent times, an much more persistent menace has emerged. Cyber incidents, notably ransomware, are actually extra frequent—and infrequently, extra damaging—than bodily disasters. In a current survey of greater than 500 CISOs, nearly three-quarters (72%) stated their group had handled ransomware within the earlier yr. Earlier in 2025, ransomware assault charges on enterprises reached document highs.
Mark Vaughn, senior director of the virtualization apply at Presidio, has witnessed the development firsthand. “After I communicate at conferences, I’ll ask the room, ‘How many individuals have been impacted?’ For catastrophe restoration, you often get just a few arms,” he says. “However a bit over a yr in the past, I requested how many individuals within the room had been hit by ransomware, and simply two-thirds of the arms went up.”
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