Cyber Recovery Quick Scan: Is your organization ready for a Cyberattack?

The illusion of security

Investing in security makes sense — of course you want to keep the bad guys out. At home, you lock your front door — maybe even double-lock it. You wouldn’t leave the door wide open, would you? But sometimes we take it too far. We hide behind “front-door technology” and the tests that validate it — and assume that’s enough. It’s not.

There needs to be a balance between prevention and the assume breach mindset.
When you look at your cyber readiness through the lens of assume breach and follow that logic all the way through, you’ll likely arrive at very different priorities. And that matters — because successful cyberattacks are still happening at alarming rates. One might ask: Are we actually winning the battle at the front door? [3] A CISO once told me, “If the upcoming pen test finds no vulnerabilities, then investing in cyber recovery isn’t necessary.”
Luckily, this mindset is rare — but it's exactly why the assume breach approach exists.

Assume breach means acknowledging that 100% prevention is impossible. Focus must shift to containing the spread, detecting the breach quickly, and — most importantly — investing in an effective cyber recovery capability.

Security Theatre

We need a fundamental shift: the traditional backup platform must evolve into a true cyber recovery platform. Whereas everyday "peacetime" restores have become a commodity, recovering from a cyberattack is now a strategic necessity.

I've seen cases where companies had “industry-leading” backup solutions with all the latest security features enabled. Everything looked great on paper — but when a real incident hit, restores weren’t possible. Why? Technical, architectural, legal, or procedural flaws that couldn’t be fixed during a crisis. And by then, it’s too late.

In many organizations, the cyber recovery platform is managed by the same team responsible for routine backups. As long as everything runs smoothly, it gets little attention — leading to a false sense of security. This is security theatre. But how resilient is your platform really, if you get that dreaded 2 a.m. call?

Rethinking Cyber recovery in 2025

So how can you ensure your cyber recovery platform is actually ready for an incident? Self-study and specialization in this domain are time-consuming. That’s why we believe there must be a faster, more efficient way to identify gaps and improvement opportunities — so they can be prioritized immediately, and organizations can take meaningful steps toward improving their cyber resilience.

As always, there is no silver bullet. No single solution will magically eliminate cyber risks.
But what if you could tap into Yuma’s decades of combined recovery expertise and real-world cyber incident experience? What if we assessed your cyber recovery plan, platform, and procedures against proven best practices — and gave you clear, actionable recommendations? That’s exactly what the Cyber Recovery Quick Scan delivers.

The cyber recovery Quick Scan

We have developed a structured process to assess the cyber-readiness of your recovery platform and IT recovery processes — quickly and efficiently. No endless interviews. No deep-dive technical analysis. We keep the scope sharp by not focusing on procedural minutiae or front-end security tooling like XDR or SIEM. Instead, our approach is simple: Assume breach. How can we recover?

This is the foundation of our Cyber Recovery Quick Scan. The result? A clear, concise report broken into five chapters. Each chapter uses a traffic light system to rate four levels of cyber maturity, along with a brief breakdown of the validated findings.

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