Fortra cybersecurity expert Josh Taylor authored a new opinion article for TechRadar Pro exploring how ransomware has shifted from a recovery problem to a data‑centric extortion threat. Drawing on large‑scale incident response data and recent industry reports, Josh explains why backups alone no longer define resilience and how attackers are increasingly targeting sensitive data rather than system availability. The article outlines the growing gap between recovery and true resilience and emphasizes the importance of data visibility, classification, and governance in reducing extortion risk.
Originally published in TechRadar Pro.
Excerpt: “Backups are infrastructure. Understanding your data is strategy. In the current threat environment, the gap between those two things is exactly where extortion lives.”
