Maria’s organization uses a cloud backup provider and performs encrypted backups for their IaaS infrastructure and data. If the data needs to be restored, what will Maria need to do?

Encrypted backups require the encryption key, so Maria’s organization will need to preserve and protect the recovery key in a secure manner that does not rely on the backups. This is often done via multiple physical copies of the key stored in secured locations with geographic diversity or using both physical and cloud secure storage like a key management system (KMS).