NEVERHACK Estonia
26. juuni 2025
Cyberattacks no longer ask if, only when. In this compelling episode of CyberCast, host Ronnie Jaanhold sits down with Ravi Baldev Singh, Senior Director for Emerging Markets at Commvault, to unpack one of the most critical – yet misunderstood – areas of cybersecurity: resilience.
Ravi, a seasoned risk practitioner with over two decades of experience, opens the conversation with a personal story from 2008 that illustrates the unforgiving nature of modern cyber threats. The episode builds from there, unpacking key concepts that every IT leader, CISO, and board member needs to internalize – from defining a “survival time objective” to operationalizing zero trust within backup and recovery environments.
Key Takeaways:
- Survival Time Objective: Organizations must know how long they can survive post-breach. It’s no longer about preventing attacks – it’s about bouncing back with speed and clarity.
- The Last Line of Defense: When all other controls fail, your backup is your business’s last safeguard. Treat it like a strategic asset, not IT plumbing.
- Zero Trust in Backup: Zero trust isn’t a product – it’s a mindset. Commvault’s platform ensures that even privileged users can’t harm backup data, protecting against internal sabotage or coercion.
- Minutes to Meltdown Tabletop Exercises: Ravi outlines how real-world simulation scenarios create muscle memory within executive teams. These aren’t just awareness tools – they are survival training.
- Clean Rooms & Cloud Rewind: Cyber recovery isn’t just about having data; it’s about having the right environment to validate and restore it. Episode introduces the concept of ‘clean rooms’ and explains how Commvault’s Cloud Rewind helps untangle the complexity of cloud-native app dependencies.
- Making Backups ‘Sexy’: It’s all about reframing. Align with compliance, risk, and audit teams to reposition recovery infrastructure as a strategic enabler – not just a checkbox.
- Risk Acceptance Forms: For IT leaders denied budget or resources, Ravi recommends formalizing risk acceptance documentation to push accountability back to the top.
- KPIs that Matter: Focus on minimum viable operations, survival time, and most importantly – the cost of inaction.
This is a wake-up call for anyone treating resilience as an afterthought. With engaging anecdotes, clear strategies, and expert wisdom, Ravi has a call to action: your backup strategy might just be your business continuity strategy.
