Beyond Backup: Critical Infrastructure Recovery | Macrium

Beyond Backup: Recovery for Systems That Cannot Stop

Critical infrastructure organizations may have backups and documented disaster recovery plans. But can they prove that every system needed to restore operations can be recovered under real OT conditions?

Recorded at Industrial Cyber Days: Critical Infrastructure, this fireside chat explores how remote sites, limited resources, aging systems, overlooked dependencies, and unavailable specialists can undermine recovery plans that appear robust on paper.

Purna Kiran Mopidevi of Sentinel ICCS joins Macrium’s Hannah Bergin and Jack Mansfield to discuss how organizations can make recovery practical, repeatable, and proven.

What the session covers

You’ll hear practical guidance on how to:

Build recovery plans around real operational constraints
Identify overlooked systems and dependencies needed to restart operations
Make recovery repeatable when key specialists are unavailable
Balance usable documentation with the need to protect sensitive information
Test recovery according to system criticality and available resources
Manage recovery across aging and legacy infrastructure

Why this matters

Restoring a critical server does not necessarily restore operations.

During the session, Purna shares an example in which a network-switch failure halted an offshore facility. The main servers were protected, but the switch configuration had not been backed up and no recoverable copy could be found.

It demonstrates why organizations need to move beyond asking:

“Do we have a disaster recovery plan?” and start asking: “Is our plan practical, and have we proven it works?”

This webinar helps answer that question.