1 Introduction

Organizations and society have become dependent upon digital services which increases the business impact of cyber threats. Recent incidents demonstrate how ransomware attacks and even mistakes can disrupt public services including healthcare. Governments around the world have recognized the need for improved digital resilience, seen in the EU the Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (known as NIS2) and the Digital Operational Resilience for the Financial Sector Regulation EU Regulation 2022/2554 (known as DORA).

To achieve cyber resilience, organizations need to take steps beyond preventing cyber-threats from impacting their digital infrastructure – they must also be able to respond to and recover when incidents occur. To achieve this, it is essential to backup, protect, and restore not only the business data, but also the data which defines today’s virtual and cloud IT infrastructure, and applications.