When a ransomware attack compromises your primary environment, the critical question isn't just how to restore your data but where you recover to, and how you know that environment is trustworthy. This session brings together practitioners who have built, tested, and activated Isolated Recovery Environments to share what the journey actually looks like: the technical decisions, the organizational challenges, and the operational protocols that determine whether recovery takes days or months, including ideas on new approaches to make IREs more budget friendly.