Readiness Report
Beyond Backup: The CISO's Guide to Modern Multi-Cloud Resilience
Multi-cloud environments create multi-cloud attack surfaces. An adversary who compromises your AWS credentials doesn’t just access production data—they can delete your backups, snapshots, and disaster recovery configs.
Learn how to evaluate platforms that deliver genuine resilience.
STRIVE Podcast
Building Multi-Cloud Recovery That Actually Works
Watch this STRIVE episode on why most multi-cloud recovery plans fail under attack—and how to fix yours.
The Reality: Multi-Cloud Is the Standard. Resilience Is Not.
Most organizations have embraced multi-cloud — but spreading workloads across providers doesn’t automatically mean you can recover when one of them is compromised.
The CISO’s Guide to Multi-Cloud Resilience explores what it actually takes to protect — and recover — across every cloud you depend on.
89%
of organizations use multi-cloud strategies
2.4
average public cloud providers used by organizations
(Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud Report)
Key Insights
The Stakes
Most security teams still rely on cloud-native snapshots stored in the same accounts as production. They run annual DR tests while infrastructure changes daily. They assume “immutability” settings will hold during an actual attack.
Yet sophisticated attackers now target backup infrastructure first, knowing that compromising recovery capabilities compounds the impact of any attack.
What Makes This Different
This report addresses the full spectrum of multi-cloud resilience—from cost optimization and recovery architectures to threat detection and compliance. It examines how platforms perform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, where each provider has distinct APIs, storage models, and security controls.
You’ll learn which capabilities define genuine resilience, and how to evaluate platforms against eight critical procurement vectors.
Why it Matters
The gap between “we have backups” and “we can recover under attack” is wider than most organizations realize. Multi-cloud complexity makes that gap exponential.
This Readiness Report provides CISOs and CIOs with a comprehensive framework for evaluating cloud data protection platforms across eight critical vectors
Cost optimization and architectural scale
Flexible recovery architectures
Pre-event threat detection
Post-event orchestration
Platform ecosystem maturity
Security, compliance, and DSPM
*ResOps is an operational discipline that unites security, infrastructure, and operations teams across the business
ASSESSMENT
Understand Where You Stand
Before considering solutions, assess your current capabilities with the Multi-Cloud Resilience Maturity Model—a companion framework that maps four distinct levels from basic snapshot reliance to continuous ResOps adoption.
Related resources
Multi-Cloud Resilience Maturity Model
STRIVE Podcast: Multi-Cloud Resilience
