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Recovery Intelligence

Recovery Intelligence: understand the scope of damage and the reliability of a recovery outcome.

Evidence
  • Sample scope and representativeness.
  • File structures, altered regions and overwrite artifacts.
  • Application-level integrity.
  • Actual usability after extraction.
Technical assessment

RFC — Ransomware Fast Check — is a preliminary assessment of samples and available evidence. State its limits; a sample percentage must not be extrapolated to all data.

Recovery also depends on storage structures, available copies, overwrite extent and usability criteria.

NAS / RAID
Array structures, filesystems, snapshots and independent copies.
SQL Server
MDF/LDF structures, consistency and application-level checks.
ESXi / Hyper-V
Virtual disk structures, snapshot/checkpoint chains and bootability.
Server / file
Formats, changed regions and whether data can be opened, read and used.