Ep. 159: Ready to Recover Series: Part 5: When everything goes wrong, the fundamentals still win

After exploring identity sprawl, cloud complexity, ransomware recovery, disaster recovery strategy, and cyber resilience, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda, who returns for the conclusion of this special five-part series.

Together, they revisit the foundational practices that consistently determine whether an organization recovers or becomes the next cautionary tale.

From immutable backups and recovery testing to application ownership and modern cyber recovery platforms, the panel cuts through the noise to focus on what actually works under the highest pressure. The episode concludes with each guest sharing the single most important priority every IT leader should take back to their organization.

Whether you’re a CIO, CISO, IT Director, Infrastructure Architect, or Disaster Recovery professional, this final conversation brings together the key lessons from the series into a single practical roadmap for building true cyber resilience.

Topics Discussed

• Why backup testing is the only way to know you’ll recover
• The technologies that are changing modern cyber recovery
• Why application owners must be part of every recovery strategy
• Immutable backups and the role they play in ransomware defense
• Lessons learned from the experts across all five episodes
• The top priorities every IT leader should focus on to strengthen resilience
• Practical steps organizations can take today to prepare for tomorrow’s outage