Why Recovery Readiness Is Now Essential for FSIs and Regulated Enterprises
AWS recently launched restore testing for AWS Backup, allowing organizations to verify that their backups can be recovered in a disaster scenario.
This capability matters. Because while most enterprises have backups, they often can’t answer the most critical question:
Are they clean? How would you know?
It’s a wake-up call for any organization that assumes backups equal resilience. Restore testing proves your backups are functional, but it doesn’t prove they’re uncompromised.
Recovery Assurance is Now Essential
Cybersecurity requires layers of protection because all software is permeable.
No single layer—not endpoint, firewall, or anomaly detection—can stop every threat. Every layer has weaknesses.
That’s why modern security architectures rely on layered defense, and why recovery assurance is now essential.
Ransomware doesn’t storm the gates. It finds cracks in your security stack, quietly encrypts production data, and those encrypted files are silently captured in your backups.
It doesn’t just test prevention — it tests your ability to recover.
Elastio + AWS Backup: Clean Recovery Starts Here
Elastio integrates directly with AWS Backup to add a critical data integrity layer: an independent ransomware scan that tells you whether your backups can be trusted.
Elastio adds a Data Integrity Layer to your security stack. It proactively inspects backups and storage with AI/ML behavior-based detection to uncover ransomware and insider threat encryption and pinpoint clean recovery points.
This isn’t another signature-based scan. It’s a purpose-built system for modern ransomware behavior that’s cloud-native, frictionless to deploy, and effective at a petabyte scale.
Why FSIs and Regulated Industries Are Moving Fast
We serve security-conscious institutions acting not just out of fear, but out of a mandate.
- Regulatory frameworks like DORA, NYDFS, and MAS TRM now require provable recovery readiness.
- Board-level directives are forcing organizations to revisit backup strategy through a ransomware lens.
- And prior attacks—or near misses—drive urgency to close the recovery gap.
As one customer put it:
“Assuming your backups are clean is not a recovery strategy. Elastio is the way to prove to the board that our ransomware response plan was real.”
— VP of IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Software Company
Join the Webcast: Elastio + AWS + Sheltered Harbor.
Recovery assurance is no longer optional — especially for Financial Institutions and regulated industries.
Join AWS, Elastio, and Sheltered Harbor for a webcast exploring how leading institutions are:
- Aligning with DORA, NYDFS, and Sheltered Harbor standards
- Validating backups continuously — not just during audits
- Building resilient recovery strategies against modern ransomware
Final Word
AWS Backup restore testing is a powerful validation tool. But to truly strengthen your ransomware defenses, you need to go deeper.
With Elastio’s independent expert scans, your team can ensure that recovery points are clean, ransomware-free, and verified before you need them.
Because when the time comes, it’s not your firewalls or SIEMs that matter most.
It’s whether you can recover.
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