Cyber Resilience: More Than Backups and Hope by Derran Guinan, Rick Byrne Disaster recovery plans have been around forever. Some are still sitting on shelves, collecting dust, waiting for a day we all hope never comes. But hope isn’t a strategy. The world has changed, and today’s threats go far beyond downtime. We’re talking about extortion, data theft, and the exposure of private information that impacts businesses, customers, and every one of us personally.
This session is about what real cyber resilience looks like right now. Using the Data Resilience Maturity Model (DRMM), we’ll walk through what basic, intermediate, advanced, and best-in-class looks like across strategy, people, process, and technology. Along the way, we’ll share real-world examples based on true events. While the details are anonymized and no customer names are shared, these stories reflect the actual challenges and outcomes we’ve seen in the field.
This isn’t a product pitch. It’s a call to arms for the community. A chance to come together and build a stronger, more realistic, and more prepared future. Not just so systems can survive, but so we can protect everything that matters—data, trust, and people.
