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Your Backups Are Not a Recovery Plan
Backups are one of those things every business knows it should have.
They sit quietly in the background, reassuring everyone that if the worst happens, the data is safe and the business can carry on. But a backup is only useful if it can actually be restored.
That is why backup testing matters. It turns “we think we’re covered” into “we know what we can recover, how quickly, and what still needs fixing.” In the middle of a ransomware attack, cloud outage, accidental deletion, or failed migration, that difference becomes very real.
What the November 2025 Cloudflare Outage Teaches Organisations About Resilience
Cloudflare suffered a major global outage on 18 November 2025 that disrupted websites, applications and core services for several hours. A routine internal configuration change triggered an unexpected file duplication that caused Cloudflare’s traffic proxy processes to crash and interrupt global connectivity. The incident revealed how dependent organisations are on single infrastructure providers and highlighted the need for stronger resilience planning, careful change control and clear visibility over internal configuration pipelines.