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As telecom networks continue to modernize, cyber resilience becomes a national infrastructure imperative.
At MWC in Barcelona this week, resilience will be front and center as telecom operators continue to modernize their networks, virtualize infrastructure, and extend services to the edge. This transformation enables agility and innovation. It also expands the attack surface.
When telecommunications networks experience downtime, the consequences extend far beyond IT disruption. Connectivity underpins emergency services, financial systems, transportation networks, and national economies. Resilience is no longer just a technology discussion—it’s a regulatory, economic, and national security priority.
In its Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 report, the World Economic Forum described cyber resilience as, “an economic and societal imperative.” Nowhere is that more evident than in telecommunications.
Cohesity’s recent Global Cyber Resilience Report surveyed 3,200 IT and security decision-makers and revealed a troubling trend: cyberattacks with material business impacts are now common.
Seventy-six percent of respondents reported experiencing at least one material cyberattack—events severe enough to halt operations, cause financial damage, and trigger reputational and regulatory consequences. More than half experienced at least one in the past year, and over a quarter experienced multiple attacks.
Yet confidence remains low. Only 42% of respondents in the telecom sector expressed strong confidence in their resilience strategy, and just 36% use immutability to protect critical data from alteration or deletion.
This exposes a broader resilience gap—not just in protection, but in the ability to detect threats early, respond decisively, and restore critical services with confidence.
For telecom operators, fragmentation is not merely a tooling issue. It directly impacts the ability to restore core network systems that generate revenue and deliver essential services.
Operators today must protect and recover:
When these systems go down, recovery time does more than affect revenue—it directly determines how quickly operators can restore connectivity across entire regions.
Unlike most enterprises, telecom providers must restore highly interdependent systems in precise sequences to avoid cascading service failures. Recovery of isolated workloads is insufficient. What’s required is an orchestrated restoration of core network services.
Prevention remains essential. But prevention alone is not resilience.
Mature cyber resilience requires:
Immutable backups are foundational—but they are only half of the equation. Organizations must also ensure they can identify clean recovery points, validate restored systems, and bring network services back online safely and at speed.
Telecom operators must operationalize resilience—it cannot remain theoretical.
Telecom environments demand enterprise-grade scale, high ingest performance, and distributed protection across data centers and edge locations.
Cohesity provides robust support for modern telecom infrastructure, including:
This enables operators to protect both traditional IT systems and cloud-native network functions within a unified architecture designed for security, scalability, and operational simplicity.
Leading telecommunications providers rely on Cohesity to help secure and recover critical network and subscriber data across complex hybrid environments.
At MWC Barcelona, Cohesity will host an invitation-only customer roundtable workshop designed for telecom leaders. The session will examine why traditional cybersecurity controls are insufficient in the face of ransomware and destructive wiper attacks, and will explore a structured approach to resilience that includes:
Telecom providers that treat resilience as a strategic capability—rather than a compliance requirement—position themselves to maintain customer trust and protect national-scale infrastructure.
For more information on the workshop, visit here. To learn more about how Cohesity can help your organization, visit us at MSC, Hall 7, Stand 7B21Ex.
Telecommunications networks are the backbone of the digital economy. Persistent, financially motivated attackers understand the value and impact of disrupting them.
Cyber incidents are now the primary threat to business continuity—surpassing natural disasters and human error in frequency and severity. The question is no longer whether a telecom provider will face a material cyber event, but how quickly it can recover.
In telecommunications, resilience is inseparable from service availability. When core network systems go down, communities lose connectivity, businesses halt operations, and national infrastructure is affected.
Operators that invest in comprehensive, end-to-end cyber resilience today are laying the foundation for a more secure and reliable digital future—protecting not just their organizations, but the societies that depend on them.
Written By
Kit Beall
Chief Revenue Officer
