And the consequences of getting that boundary wrong keep rising. In Veeam’s 2025 Ransomware Trends and Proactive Strategies report, 89% of organizations said threat actors targeted their backup repositories. On average, 34% of repositories were modified or deleted, and fewer than 10% of attacked organizations recovered more than 90% of their data.1 For SMBs, where downtime and data loss can stall operations fast, that’s not a survivable recovery profile.