Why Stryker's Outage Is a Disaster Recovery Wake-Up Call

Iranian threat group Handala claimed responsibility for a wiper attack on medical technology company Stryker, allegedly wiping 200,000 systems and exfiltrating 50TB of data across 79 countries. Security experts use the incident to highlight critical gaps in business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning. Key lessons include: BCDR plans must account for total-loss wiper scenarios (not just ransomware), immutable backups must be isolated from the primary identity plane, out-of-band communications are essential, and multinational organizations need pre-defined recovery prioritization across countries with different legal and operational constraints. The attack underscores that if identity infrastructure, endpoints, and backups all fail simultaneously, resilience becomes theoretical.