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 checks, crossed their fingers, and hoped they’d by no means have to make use of them.
Lately, an much more persistent risk has emerged. Cyber incidents, significantly ransomware, are actually extra frequent—and sometimes, extra damaging—than bodily disasters. In a latest survey of greater than 500 CISOs, virtually three-quarters (72%) mentioned their group had handled ransomware within the earlier yr. Earlier in 2025, ransomware assault charges on enterprises reached file 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 a couple of fingers,” he says. “However somewhat 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 fingers went up.”
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