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Backup Infrastructure Needs Its Own Containment Boundary

A recovery copy is not resilient when production identities and network paths can still reach it

Ransomware operators target backup systems because destroying recovery increases leverage. This article explains how to isolate backup infrastructure, separate its identity plane, constrain management paths, and test recovery as a Zero Trust boundary.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Microsegmentation in 2026: The Control That Turns Breach Assumption Into Architecture

Why lateral movement, cloud sprawl, identity drift, and AI agents are making containment a board-level priority

A 2026 trend view on microsegmentation: vulnerability exploitation, ransomware, identity drift, cloud complexity, and AI agents all point to the same need - smaller blast radius by design.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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