We design data protection as an engineered discipline, not a procurement line item. Every framework we build starts with the recovery objective: how fast, how much data, how clean, and under what adversary conditions. Those answers drive the architecture — not the platform brochure.
Ransomware has changed what “data protection” means. Immutability, air-gapped recovery, segmented restoration, and validated RTO/RPO aren’t best practices anymore. They’re the minimum standard. We design to that standard — and we validate against it before we sign off on go-live.
Patch governance and recovery testing sit inside the data protection practice, not outside it. If we can’t recover it, we haven’t protected it.