AI-Enabled Ransomware Demands AI-Enabled Defense — Not Just Better Recovery 

This article summarizes Gartner’s 2026 IT Resilience findings and argues that while organizations have improved ransomware recovery capabilities (automation, immutable backups, isolated recovery environments), the emergence of AI-enabled, automated ransomware necessitates a mindset shift from recovery-first to preemptive, AI-driven disruption of attacks before execution; recovery remains a safety net but should not be the primary strategy, and the piece promotes Morphisec’s anti-ransomware offering.