ELS - When the Backup Becomes the Breach: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in a Sovereign Data World
- By CDOTrends editors
- April 11, 2026
Everpure Leadership Series:
When the Backup Becomes the Breach: Rethinking Cyber Resilience in a Sovereign Data World
09 April 2026 | Online
The conversation around cyber resilience has moved beyond backup and recovery. In a world shaped by cross‑border data sovereignty mandates and AI systems learning from and acting on sensitive enterprise data, the question that data leaders are pondering is whether the data you recover is still yours, still intact, and still compliant. At the same time, enterprises are finding out that recovery systems can themselves become targets, and AI models can unintentionally exfiltrate or corrupt sovereign data.
This Everpure Leadership Series panel discussion brings together thought leaders from Everpure and practitioners to examine:
- How data sovereignty reshapes the definition of “resilience” in distributed and cloud‑first architectures.
- Why backup and recovery platforms are now frontline defenses, not afterthoughts.
- The real‑world regulatory landscape when data residency or recovery actions violate sovereignty rules.
- The new AI wildcard with autonomous agents that may overwhelm protected data zones or render critical assets temporarily unavailable.
This is a conversation for leaders who know that uptime means nothing if the data behind it can’t stand up to regulatory or AI scrutiny.
Moderator:
Winston Thomas, Editor-in-Chief, CDOTrends
Panelists:
- Matthew Oostveen, Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific & Japan, Everpure
- Silvia Ihensekhien, Director of Information Security and Risk Management, Swire Coca-Cola Limited
- Dr. Shakti Goel, Chief Architect and Data Scientist, Yatra Online Ltd.
