When Prevention Can't Keep Up: The New Math of Cyber Recovery

This article argues that traditional prevention-focused cybersecurity is insufficient in the era of frontier AI, which accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Organizations must shift focus from prevention to demonstrable recovery capability, with Mean Time to Clean Recovery (MTCR) becoming a critical board-level metric. The piece outlines four strategic priorities: assessing actual recovery risks, implementing isolated recovery environments, identifying minimum viable company systems, and automating continuous resilience testing rather than relying on calendar-based validation.