90% Expect to Recover from Attacks. Only 28% Do.

by | Jun 30, 2026 | Backup and Recovery, Business Continuity

90% of Companies Believe They Can Recover from an Attack. Only 28% Actually Do.

Almost every business owner believes the same thing: “If something goes wrong, we have backups. We will be fine.” A major new global study just put that belief to the test, and the results are sobering.

Confidence in recovery is nearly universal. Actual recovery is not. The gap between the two is where businesses quietly fail.

The Confidence Gap, Measured in Hard Numbers

In April 2026, Veeam, the world’s market leader in data resilience and protector of data for 82% of the Fortune 500, released its Data Trust and Resilience Report 2026. It surveyed more than 900 senior IT, security and risk leaders worldwide. The headline finding is one every business should sit with:

  • 90% of organisations are confident they can recover from a cyber incident.
  • Yet among those actually hit by ransomware, only 28% fully recovered all their affected data.
  • 44% recovered less than 75% of their data. On average, victims got back just 72%.
  • Among organisations that suffered a cyber incident, 42% reported customer disruption and 41% reported financial or revenue loss.
  • Companies that invested in resilience fundamentals recovered far better: full recovery reached 40% versus just 16% for those that did not.

“Confidence in recovery and proof of recovery are fundamentally different capabilities.”

Anand Eswaran, CEO, Veeam

Having Backups Is Not the Same as Being Able to Recover

Here is the trap. A backup runs every night and reports success. The light is green. Everyone assumes the business is protected. Then an attack hits, and the team discovers the painful gaps only under pressure: the backup itself was encrypted because it sat on the same network, a critical cloud application was never included in the backup scope, or a restore that should take hours takes days because nobody had ever actually tested it.

For a Malaysian business, recovering only 72% of your data is not a 72% success. The missing 28% could be your customer database, your unpaid invoices, your production records, or your compliance documents. Partial recovery means permanent loss, prolonged downtime, and broken commitments to the very customers you depend on.

The Veeam data makes the lesson unmistakable: backups are necessary, but they are not the goal. Proven, tested recovery is the goal.

BIGBAND ADVISORY

A backup you have never restored is not a recovery plan. It is a hope. The businesses that recover cleanly share three habits: their backups are immutable, meaning attackers cannot encrypt or delete them; at least one copy is kept isolated, separate from the live network; and restores are tested on a schedule, not discovered during a crisis.

Veeam found that the organisations investing in these fundamentals recovered fully more than twice as often. The difference between a bad week and a closed business is rarely the size of the budget. It is whether recovery was proven before the attack, not assumed after it.

“A backup you have never tested is not protection. It is a guess.”

BigBand Digital Infrastructure Advisory

From Backup You Hope In to Recovery You Can Prove

BigBand builds the proven recovery capability that the Veeam report shows most organisations only assume they have:

  • Backup as a Service: Automated, monitored backups of your critical systems and data, managed by our team so the job is done right and done consistently.
  • Immutable and Isolated Copies: Backups that ransomware cannot encrypt or delete, with an isolated copy kept safely off your live network.
  • Anti Ransomware Protection: Defence focused on the threat that remains the clearest test of whether a business can truly recover.
  • Recovery Advisory and Testing: We help you define realistic recovery targets and validate them, so the first time you restore is never during a real attack.

The result is simple to state and hard to fake: when something goes wrong, your business comes back, with your data intact and your operations running.

If You Were Attacked Tonight, Could You Prove You Would Recover?

Most businesses only learn the answer the hard way. Talk to BigBand for a no-obligation review of your backup and recovery readiness, and move from confidence to proof.
 

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