Subramani Rao — Cybersecurity Solutions Strategy at Acronis
May 25, 2026
For most managed service providers (MSPs), ransomware recovery is not a problem that affects one client at a time. It is a multitenant, high-pressure scenario where recovery failures impact multiple clients at once. Testing ransomware recovery is not just a technical exercise but a business-critical requirement.
The green check of a successful backup job does not guarantee successful ransomware recovery. Attackers today do more than encrypt files. They compromise identity systems, alter configurations, and create persistence mechanisms that survive system restoration. So, a "clean" backup can still reintroduce dormant malware or broken dependencies into your environment. Recovery success depends on whether systems are usable, trusted and operational after restore, not whether data simply exists.
Modern ransomware protection and recovery strategies require correlation between security events and backup data. Without that, MSPs are forced into guesswork across multiple client environments. The result is increased uncertainty and risk. What MSPs need is a modern platform, such as Acronis Cyber Platform, which integrates backup with security telemetry and enables teams to correlate attack timelines with recovery points so MSPs can reduce the risk of restoring compromised data.
