Extending the Power of Amazon GuardDuty with Elastio

Customer Pain: Security teams can detect threats, but they cannot tell if backups have already been corrupted. This forces IR teams and CISOs to guess about recovery integrity, slows down response, increases downtime, and creates compliance and audit gaps.

Value Proposition:The GuardDuty and Elastio integration turns every detection event into automated recovery assurance. GuardDuty identifies suspicious behavior and Elastio validates the data integrity. Then, compromised data is quarantined, clean recovery points are verified, and detailed evidence is pushed to Security Hub and IR systems. IR teams gain clear, file-level intelligence and a confirmed clean restore point. CISOs receive continuous dashboards that prove recovery readiness, SLA compliance, and audit-ready documentation.

Outcome: Customers move from “we detected something” to “we know exactly what is safe to recover and what to do.” This reduces downtime, eliminates recovery guesswork, strengthens compliance, and provides measurable resilience against ransomware.

Scan Backups with Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup

Cybersecurity teams are under pressure: attackers are faster, stealthier, and increasingly targeting backups. Amazon’s announcement of GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is an important step forward for cloud security teams. But while detection is essential, detection alone does not equal ransomware readiness.

This is where the Elastio and GuardDuty integration becomes a force multiplier.

From Alerts to Ransomware Readiness

Security leaders understand this: alerts tell you what is happening, but they do not guarantee you can survive what happens next.

Modern adversaries:

• Bypass prevention controls
• Encrypt backups
• Hide inside trusted services
  Leave your environment looking healthy while recovery points are already corrupted

So even with the best detection systems, organizations still face the question:
“Are our backups actually clean and recoverable?”

With the new integration:

• GuardDuty detects anomalies, malware, compromised credentials, and suspicious API behavior
• Elastio responds automatically by scanning data for corruption, ransomware encryption, and malware
• Compromised data is quarantined
• Clean recovery points are validated and preserved
• Findings are pushed to Security Hub, IR platforms, or SOAR workflows

Elastio converts threat alerts into recovery assurance. You do not simply know something bad happened; you know your last clean copy is safe.

What It Means for Your Security Teams

• GuardDuty provides threat visibility: It detects suspicious behaviors across S3, EC2, EBS, IAM, and other AWS services.
• Elastio provides proof of survivability: It verifies that your data is intact, unencrypted, unmodified, and recoverable.

For Incident Response Teams

• Compromised data is automatically quarantined
• Elastio identifies the last known clean restore point
• File level forensics and malware details are surfaced instantly
• Teams can investigate safely before triggering recovery

For CISOs and CIOs

• A continuous security control that proves ransomware readiness
• Independent validation that backups meet compliance, governance, and cyber insurance expectations
• Reduction in downtime by more than 90 percent
• Realizable 10 to 25 times ROI through faster, cleaner recovery

This turns backup validation into a measurable resilience metric rather than a hope.