Guest:
Kosta Makropoulos, Storage and Data Resilience Technical Specialist, IBM
Episode Overview
Most organizations think they have data resiliency covered because they have a DR plan. They do not. Kosta Makropoulos, IBM's national subject matter expert for data resiliency, breaks down why cyber resiliency, recovery, and compliance now demand a completely different approach - and what to do before an attack exposes the gaps.
Kyle Foster of Glasshouse Systems leads the conversation with a practical lens on what clients are struggling with right now: regulated industries, aging infrastructure, geographic risk, cloud migration blind spots, and the reality that more than 90% of attacks are targeting backup infrastructure. If you're still relying on legacy backup thinking, this episode shows why that's no longer enough.
You'll discover how IBM thinks about data resiliency through the NIST 2.0 cybersecurity framework, including the six pillars of identify, protect, detect, respond, recover, and governance. Kosta explains why the shift from architecting for backup to architecting for recovery changes everything, and how teams across storage, security, risk, and compliance need to operate together instead of in silos.
We break down the three capabilities that matter most: end-to-end compliance visibility, early threat detection, and fast, safe recovery. Kosta also shares how IBM Storage Defender brings backup, replication, clean room scanning, orchestration, and automation into one coordinated strategy, while Flash Systems and Flash Core Module 4 add hardware-level anomaly detection, immutable snapshots, and performance-friendly security offloads.
For organizations trying to move from theory to action, the episode closes with a low-friction next step: IBM's funded secure and resilient assessment. It's a two-hour, no-charge, no-agent review that helps identify the highest-impact gaps and build a roadmap you can actually take to leadership.
Essential listening if you are responsible for protecting data, reducing cyber risk, or building a more resilient enterprise without adding unnecessary complexity. This is the conversation that helps you stop treating resiliency as a backup problem and start treating it like a business survival strategy.
.png)
.png)
-1.png)
-1.png)
.png?width=1376&height=768&name=generated-image%20(4).png)
.png?width=1376&height=768&name=generated-image%20(5).png)
.png?width=1376&height=768&name=generated-image%20(6).png)