Data Recovery

Definitions

1. The process of restoring lost, deleted, damaged, or inaccessible data from backups, replicas, or underlying media. In security incidents, recovery quality determines whether an organization can return to trusted operations after ransomware, sabotage, or corruption.

   In plain English: Getting lost or damaged data back into usable form.

   Example: "Data recovery took longer than expected because the team had backups but no validated restore runbooks."

Related Terms

• Access Log
• Data Backup Security
• File Analysis
• File Carving
• Forensic Toolkit
• Header Analysis
• Incident Investigation
• Incident Recovery
• Redundancy Security
• Restore Point