The Practical ROI of a Quick Active Directory Recovery

Choosing an AD disaster-recovery solution: six considerations—expertise required, compliance, recovery time, backup method, maintenance, ROI—as over half of IT teams are unhappy with current plans.

Semperis argues that testing backups under ideal conditions creates only an illusion of resilience; real cyber resilience is about staying recoverable when the plan fails and the assumptions behind it collapse.

Ex-bp CISO Simon Hodgkinson argues disaster recovery is too narrow for today's threats: operational resilience must span governance, business continuity, and third-party supplier risk.

Explains why hypervisor snapshots of domain controllers can't replace proper AD backups: restores risk lingering objects, replication inconsistency, and USN rollback during forest recovery.

Former bp CISO Simon Hodgkinson on the HIP Podcast: operational resilience is broader than disaster recovery—spanning governance, business continuity and cyber risk—plus lessons from the $1M Colonial Pipeline fine.

A survey of 350-plus security professionals finds a preparation gap: 97% call AD mission-critical, 84% expect severe impact from an outage, yet only 3% are extremely confident in fast recovery and over half never tested their AD recovery plan.