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Mainframe Cyber Resilience Reimagined: From Backup Recovery to Precision Cyber Protection
Today's threat landscape demands more than snapshots and backups. Join BMC experts to learn how Precision Cyber Protection complements your existing IBM Z environment by helping you detect threats earlier, protect critical recovery assets, and rapidly recover trusted mainframe data with minimal disruption and transaction loss
- Detect threats earlier
Protect critical recovery assets from compromise, and ensure recovery readiness - Minimize Business Disruption
Recover quickly minimizing data and transaction loss
Speakers:
Ted Bakon, Director, Global Partner Growth, BMC Software
Mike Russo, General Manager of Financial Services, Everpure
event summary
Why cyber resilience is shifting from backup recovery to precision protection
As cyberattacks grow more sophisticated and AI accelerates threat activity, traditional recovery strategies are proving insufficient. Industry leaders discuss why resilience now depends on early detection, protected recovery assets, and precise recovery capabilities that minimize operational disruption.
core insights
1
Attackers are targeting recovery assets
Threat actors increasingly seek to compromise backups, snapshots, and other recovery resources. Protecting recovery infrastructure with immutable and isolated storage has become a core requirement for maintaining operational resilience.
2
Detection speed determines recovery success
Many breaches remain undetected for months, giving attackers time to learn environments and compromise systems. Organizations need stronger anomaly detection and continuous monitoring to identify threats before recovery becomes significantly more complex.
3
Resilience requires more than backup and recovery
Organizations are discovering that having data copies is no longer enough. Effective cyber resilience depends on combining detection, protected recovery assets, and validated recovery processes to ensure reliable business continuity.
what this means
Turning cyber resilience into operational readiness
Cyber resilience is becoming a business leadership issue rather than a technology issue. Organizations must shift from preventing every attack to preparing for inevitable incidents through stronger recovery governance, testing, and operational discipline.
Key takeaways:
- Identify mission-critical systems, applications, and data assets that require priority protection.
- Protect recovery copies with immutable and isolated storage architectures.
- Implement continuous monitoring and anomaly detection to reduce breach dwell time.
- Test end-to-end recovery processes through regular exercises and validation scenarios.
- Align cyber recovery plans with operational, regulatory, and business continuity requirements.
“It's no longer if, it's when."
Ted Bacon, BMC Software