How is cyber recovery different from backup and DR?

Cyber recovery assumes the primary and secondary environments are compromised. Recovery relies on isolated, immutable data copies, forensic clean-room compute and a scripted rebuild path that does not trust the estate that failed. It is a distinct pattern, not a duplicate of DR.

What is the cleanroom pattern and when is it invoked?

A cleanroom is an isolated compute and network environment used to inspect, sanitise and rehydrate protected data before returning workloads to production. It is invoked when infection scope or dwell time cannot be established from production telemetry alone.

How is immutability implemented across the recovery chain?

Immutability is layered — object-lock or hardened backup repositories, air-gapped vaults, retention-locked object storage — and administrative separation is enforced so the identities that can modify production cannot modify the recovery copies.

How is recovery order prioritised during a ransomware event?

Recovery order follows the BIA and the incident's business impact, sequenced against identity, DNS, security tooling and network services first. Order is documented in runbooks so it does not depend on a specific person being available under pressure.

How are integrity checks performed before workloads return to production?

Sanitisation includes malware scanning, indicator-of-compromise sweeps, credential and secret rotation, patch and configuration hardening and application validation. Only workloads with signed integrity evidence rejoin production.

How is a cyber-recovery capability exercised and evidenced?

Simulated events rehearse the invocation, cleanroom rebuild and reintegration steps end-to-end. Evidence — time stamps, integrity scans, recovery decisions — is captured for insurers and regulators, and improvement actions are tracked with due dates.

BCDR

Ransomware Recovery & Cyber Resilience

Restore trusted systems from clean and protected recovery points.

Cyber-recovery engagements strengthen resilience against ransomware and destructive cyber events through immutable and air-gapped copies, cyber-recovery vault design, clean-room recovery, backup anomaly monitoring, credential separation, and rehearsed response playbooks. Engagements coordinate closely with identity, network, endpoint security, security operations, incident response, and leadership stakeholders.

"Recover cleanly. Recover in an informed way. Reduce dependency on ransom payment."

Recovery Copies

Isolated

Immutable and logically or physically air-gapped storage.

Restore Path

Clean-room

Restored systems validated before reintroduction.

Response Model

Coordinated

Aligned with security operations, incident response, and leadership.

Platform ecosystem

Multi-vendor by design — protection, replication and recovery tooling is matched to the workload estate, not to a single vendor preference.

Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
Rubrik Cyber Recovery
Cohesity FortKnox
Veeam Data Platform
AWS Air-Gapped Vault
Index Engines CyberSense
Superna

Scope in detail

Backup Security Posture Assessment
Review backup and recovery architecture for exposure to destructive cyber events, including administrative separation, credential handling, network isolation, immutability, and integration with security operations.
Immutable & Air-Gapped Copies
Design and integrate immutable and logically or physically air-gapped copies of critical data to reduce the risk of backup data being altered or destroyed during an incident.
Cyber-Recovery Vault Architecture
Architect isolated cyber-recovery vaults with separate control planes, dedicated identities, and restricted network paths for the storage of trusted recovery copies.
Credential & Administrative Separation
Separate backup, recovery, and vault administrative domains from production identity and privileged access, with multi-factor authentication and controlled access paths.
Backup Anomaly Monitoring
Monitor backup and replication behaviour for anomalies such as unusual change rates, retention modifications, or repository access patterns that may indicate compromise.
Clean-Room Recovery
Design clean-room recovery environments in which restored systems can be validated, scanned, and hardened before being reintroduced to production.
Recovery Sequencing & Coordination
Define recovery sequencing across identity, network, endpoint security, security operations, incident response, and business applications so restored services return in a trusted, supported order.
Leadership & Communications Playbooks
Support the development of leadership, legal, communications, insurance, and regulator engagement playbooks so decisions during an incident are informed and rehearsed.
Ransomware Recovery Exercises
Facilitate clean-room recovery exercises and executive tabletop scenarios that rehearse coordinated technical, operational, and management response.
Post-Recovery Hardening
Support post-recovery remediation activities across backup, identity, endpoint, and infrastructure to reduce the likelihood of repeat compromise.

Where recovery breaks down

Backup shares the production blast radius
Backup servers, repositories, and management consoles share credentials, directory services, and network segments with production, exposing them to the same compromise.
Backup infrastructure is a primary target
Attackers now target backup servers, repositories, hypervisors, and management consoles before triggering wider impact to remove the recovery option.
No isolated recovery environment
There is no clean-room or isolated environment in which to validate the integrity of restored data and applications before returning them to production.
Recovery is not coordinated with response
Backup and disaster recovery procedures have not been aligned with cybersecurity incident response, endpoint, identity, and business response teams.

Engagement approach

Ransomware recovery engineered across backup, identity, network, endpoint, and security tooling, and coordinated with the customer's cybersecurity and leadership response.

Assess & Design
Review backup security posture and design immutable, isolated, logically air-gapped, cyber-recovery vault, and clean-room recovery patterns aligned to workload tiers.
Deploy & Integrate
Configure protected recovery copies, administrative separation, access controls, anomaly monitoring, clean-room infrastructure, and required identity and network integrations.
Validate & Rehearse
Test trusted restore points, malware-checking workflows, recovery sequencing, technical runbooks, and leadership tabletop scenarios for ransomware events.
Coordinate Recovery Support
Support authorised recovery activities alongside cybersecurity, endpoint, identity, network, forensic, legal, insurance, and management stakeholders during and after an incident.

Deliverables & artefacts

Backup security posture assessment
Immutable, air-gapped and cyber-vault design
Clean-room recovery environment build
Backup anomaly monitoring and administrative separation
Recovery sequencing runbook with integrity checks
Executive and communications playbook rehearsal

End-to-End IT Integration and Support

From assessment and solution design through implementation, remediation, ongoing support, and lifecycle optimization.

Close Ransomware-Recovery Gaps — Remediation Sprints

Backup copies mutable, backup and production administration shared, or no clean-room recovery path? Jiva Technologies delivers a defined-scope ransomware-recovery remediation engagement to separate administration, implement immutable or isolated recovery, and validate trusted restore points and recovery workflows.

Separate production and backup administration, credentials, management access, and security boundaries
Implement or correct immutable, isolated, air-gapped, or cyber-recovery vault configurations
Build clean-room recovery workflows and validate trusted restore points, recovery sequencing, and technical runbooks

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Ransomware-Recovery Support — AMC-Backed

Under an AMC, Jiva Technologies maintains ransomware-recovery configurations — immutability and vault posture, administrative separation, coordinated trusted-restore exercises, and technical alignment with identity, network, endpoint, SOC, and incident-response stakeholders.

Scheduled review of immutability, vault health, access controls, administrative separation, and protected recovery copies
Coordination of agreed clean-room, trusted-restore, and ransomware-recovery exercises
Backup-platform maintenance and technical coordination with identity, network, endpoint, SOC, and incident-response teams

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