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Architecting resilience: The high-margin business of recovery While prevention is critical, the modern security posture accepts the inevitability of a breach. The ultimate test of a business – and its partners – is its ability to recover. It is in these situations where telcos can deliver their most compelling value. The panicked question from a CIO amid a ransomware attack is no longer“ Do we have backups?” but“ Are our backups clean?” The terrifying possibility of restoring an already infected system is a board-level risk. Ashish compares it to a blood transfusion.“ If you’ re doing a transfusion but feeding the transfusion with infected blood, it’ s not going to help,” he points out.
Such breaches are a problem that telcos are perfectly equipped to solve. By leveraging their significant investments in secure data centres and high-speed fibre networks, operators can offer a suite of high-margin resilience services.
Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service( DRaaS) and, more importantly, immutable backup solutions, provide enterprise clients with a guaranteed, air-gapped and verifiably clean copy of their data. The service transforms a telco’ s sunk infrastructure costs into a premium revenue stream. Furthermore, with the rise of private 5G networks for large retail environments, telcos can use network slicing to guarantee dedicated, high-priority bandwidth for recovery operations, ensuring business continuity even during a crisis.
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