Live webinar · Free · 45 minutes
Ransomware Recovery Webinar for SMBs | Acronis for small teams that have backups but have never timed a restore
A working session on what actually determines how fast a small business gets back online after ransomware — tolerable downtime, tolerable data loss, protected backup copies, and a restore you have tested. You leave with the four answers you need written down, not a product pitch.
- A number for downtime and a number for data losswe walk RTO and RPO in plain English and put a figure against each system that matters: email, file shares, the line-of-business app, the finance system.
- Backup copies that survive the attackerwhy immutability, offsite or air-gapped copies, and separating backup admin credentials from domain credentials are the difference between a bad week and a bad quarter.
- A restore test you can run this monthwhat to restore, who watches the clock, and what "we tested it" has to mean before you can put it in a plan.
- An exfiltration branch, not just a restore branchSophos reports that in its enterprise dataset, data encryption fell to its lowest rate in five years at 49% of attacks, down from 66%, while attacks stopped before encryption rose from 22% in 2023 to 47% in 2025; in Sophos's retail research, extortion-only attacks tripled from 2% of incidents in 2023 to 6% in 2025. A plan that only covers "restore the files" no longer covers the whole event.
- One page of roleswho declares an incident, who contacts counsel and your carrier, who talks to staff and customers, and who is authorized to make the call at 2 a.m.
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Free · 45 minutes · 12 seats per session
No sales sequence. One reminder before the session, and the recording after.
What we actually cover
What people bring to this session.
We already run backups — isn't that a recovery plan?
Backups are an input; recovery is the outcome, and the two come apart under pressure. Sophos found that 62% of retailers hit by ransomware restored their data using backups, the lowest rate in four years. Aggregated third-party reporting also claims backup repositories are targeted in 96% of ransomware attacks and successfully compromised 76% of the time, with recovery costs roughly 8x higher when backups are compromised — those figures come from a statistics roundup rather than the original research, so we present them as unverified aggregate claims and focus the session on the controls they point to.
How long would it actually take us to get back?
Reporting on Sophos's 2025 research states 53% of organizations fully recovered within a week. The gap between one week and three months is mostly planning: tested restores, a documented runbook, pre-agreed escalation, and known-clean rebuild images. We go through each one and where small teams usually have a hole.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay?
Aggregated third-party reporting states that among SMEs that paid, only 60% successfully recovered their data, 31% received further demands, and 69% of businesses that paid were attacked again within the following year. Those are aggregator figures, not primary research, and we treat them that way — but the direction is consistent with the broader trend: aggregated reporting puts refusal to pay at 63% of victims in 2025, up from 59% in 2024. We do not give legal advice on payment; that conversation belongs with your counsel and your carrier.
We're small and we think we're covered. Are we?
Aggregated reporting states 69% of businesses believed they were well-prepared before they were attacked, and that victims cite an average of 2.7 contributing factors. Sophos found exploited vulnerabilities were the most common root cause for the third consecutive year, used in 32% of attacks overall. Patching hygiene and recovery planning are the same conversation, and we run through both as one checklist.
Before you register
Common questions
- Who should be on the call?
- The owner or operations lead plus whoever holds backup administrator access. Those two answer most of the questions between them.
- Is this an Acronis product demo?
- No. The session is about planning, and the checklist works regardless of what you run today. palmiq is an Acronis Platinum partner, top 1% globally, so product-specific questions are welcome in the last few minutes.
- Does this cover our CMMC, HIPAA or E-Rate obligations?
- We can show where recovery planning intersects with the obligations you already carry and take the specifics offline. The session does not assess or establish compliance with any framework, and we make no claims about control coverage.
- Do we need to prepare anything?
- Helpful if you know where your backups live, who can log into them, and the date of your last full restore test. If you don't know, that answer is useful too.
Rather talk it through first? Call 703-336-9700, or see the other sessions.