Data protection used to mean making backup tapes in case a hardware failure disabled one of your production hard disk drives. Today organizations must contend with AI-based ransomware and cyber-attacks, requiring a more proactive, automated, and orchestrated approach to achieve faster and safer recovery to get your business up and running as quickly as possible. This interview with Ram Parasuraman, Executive Director IBM Storage Defender, discusses how data resilience is shifting toward fully autonomous threat detection, response, and recovery systems.