In May I presented at AWS Summit Warsaw 2026 where I co-delivered a 400-level session titled STG401: Building Resilience Against Ransomware Using AWS Backup. The session focused on how organizations can build a robust recovery strategy to minimize the impact of cyber events.
Together with Adrian Bere, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, we walked the audience through the cyber threat landscape, the anatomy of a ransomware attack, and why backups are both a critical recovery mechanism and a prime target for attackers. We covered the full lifecycle from threat detection through recovery, including reference architectures and the concept of a minimum viable company to prioritize restoration of important business services.
Key takeaways from the session: recovery is becoming a focus area for organizations, detection often relies on reaching a critical mass of indicators, backups require regular testing because they are targets themselves, and cyber resilience is ultimately a business problem rather than just a technical one.
It was great to be back at AWS Summit Warsaw and to present on a topic that resonates with so many organizations navigating today’s threat landscape.
My slides covering the presentation can be found here.