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Ashish Panwar

Author: Ashish Panwar

Ashish Panwar is a Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, focused on helping healthcare and life sciences customers achieve resilient, secure, and operationally excellent workloads. He specializes in resilience, with a focus on preparing organizations to recover from both operational failures and adversarial cyber events. Before joining AWS, Ashish spent over 15 years advising technology leaders on transformation initiatives at Fortune 100 companies.

The Production Account is isolated after a confirmed event. The Recovery Account owns the logically air-gapped vault and controls restore authorization through Multi-party approval. The IRE has no trust relationship or network path to production.

Cyber resilience on AWS: A reference approach for recovery from ransomware and destructive events

Cyber resilience is the ability to recover workloads to a known-good state after an adversary has affected the environment. Prevention works to keep threat actors out and detection works to find them quickly. Cyber resilience focuses on recovery: restoring a trustworthy environment when backups, credentials, or parts of the infrastructure can no longer be assumed […]