Friday Night Ransomware: The 72 Hours Nobody Plans For

A candid conversation about what happens next

If ransomware began encrypting production data on a Friday evening, would your organization know what to do before employees and customers returned Monday morning?

h-Bar Solutions invites IT and business leaders from across the Stamford area to an in-person working lunch at Terra Gaucha. Attendees will walk through the decisions organizations face during the first 72 hours of a ransomware incident, from the first alert and weekend escalation to clean recovery points, application priorities, and business operations.

You would be a wonderful addition to this roundtable of local technology and business professionals discussing a critical topic.

This is not a product presentation. It is a relaxed, discussion-based executive roundtable where local peers can compare experiences, ask practical questions, and explore what proven recovery really requires.

Practical, personal, and built around peer exchange

The roundtable includes a private 72-Hour Test that allows each attendee to consider detection, escalation ownership, clean recovery points, and recovery sequencing without sharing a score with the room.

Attendees will leave with new questions to take back to their teams, new connections with peers in the Stamford area, and a clearer view of what recovery readiness means for the entire business.

h-Bar Solutions also sees this luncheon as an opportunity to learn what local technology and business leaders would find valuable in future gatherings. Based on the interest and response, h-Bar may host additional roundtables and peer networking events in the area.

Event Details:

Location: Terra Gaucha Brazilian Steakhouse
230 Tresser Blvd, Stamford, CT 06901
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM ET

Bring a colleague and come ready for a valuable conversation over lunch.

Hosted by h-Bar Solutions

Sponsored by IBM

h-Bar Solutions is bringing together IT and business leaders for a practical conversation about preparing for disruption and proving recovery. IBM experts will contribute perspective on moving beyond backup toward recovery that can be validated before an incident occurs.

During the roundtable, attendees will discuss:

The gap between a recovery plan that has been reviewed and one that has been tested
What happens from the first ransomware alert through Monday morning
Who has the authority to make critical isolation and recovery decisions after hours
How teams determine which recovery point is clean
Why the order in which applications return matters
The difference between restoring data and restoring business operations
How to communicate with employees, customers, partners, and executive leadership during recovery