Tech Talk | Ransomware Recovery: Will Your Backups Be There When You Need Them?
Date: Tuesday, November 17 at 11am PT / 2pm ET
A successful backup job doesn’t tell you whether you can recover after a ransomware attack. What happens if attackers delete backups, encrypt data, or manipulate the clock to bypass retention controls? And if your data survives, how do you get the business running again?
Join industry experts for a practical Tech Talk on ransomware preparedness and recovery. Drawing on anonymized accounts of actual attacks, the speakers will examine what happened, how organizations responded, and what helped or hindered restoration.
Topics will include:
- Lessons from real ransomware incidents, from initial notification through restoration.
- Attempts to delete or encrypt backup data, including attacks through backup software and S3 tools.
- How immutability and retention controls protect backups, and what time-spoofing attacks try to circumvent.
- Practical recovery demonstrations and checks that help you determine whether a recovery plan will work.
Bring your questions and leave with a clearer understanding of what to test before your organization relies on its backups.
Register now!
About the presenters:
Matt Price, Senior Technical Solutions Manager, Object First
Matt Price is a Senior Technical Solutions Manager at Object First, focused on ransomware resilience through Absolute Immutability for Veeam customers. With over 20 years in IT, the majority spent in business continuity and disaster recovery, he brings a battle-tested, no-nonsense view of what it actually takes to keep data safe. Matt shares that perspective regularly through webinars, podcasts, videos and technical content built for practitioners, not just slideware.
Geoff Burke, Senior Technology Advisor, Object First
Geoff Burke is a Senior Technology Advisor at Object First with more than 20 years of IT experience and over a decade specializing in data protection and backup. A recognized Veeam expert and Veeam Vanguard, Geoff focuses on helping organizations strengthen data resilience, Zero Trust architectures and ransomware protection through secure, immutable backup strategies. His expertise spans Veeam technologies, virtualization, Kubernetes and enterprise infrastructure, and he is an active contributor to the wider data protection and IT community.
Moderated by:
John K. Waters, Editor at Large, Redmondmag.com
As the Editor-in-Chief in the Converge360 group of 1105 Media, journalist and author John K. Waters manages leading news sites focused on worldwide technology trends, from artificial intelligence to the software development lifecycle.
Date: 11/17/2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour