Ransomware Recovery Readiness for Multi-site Ops

Backups are not recovery. Recovery is only real when it has been tested under realistic conditions, with clear RTO and RPO targets for each critical system.

For multi-site logistics operations, ransomware recovery readiness means knowing exactly which systems must be restored first (WMS, ERP, network, identity), having immutable backup copies that cannot be encrypted, and practicing restore procedures quarterly with actual data validation.

The biggest gaps we see: backups that have never been restored, no documented runbooks for recovery sequences, and missing failover configs for internet and network access. Recovery readiness is measured by restore time, not by backup completion logs.