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In an era where ransomware attacks are increasingly targeting backup infrastructure, relying on untested recovery points is a risk no enterprise can afford. For organizations standardizing on hybrid cloud infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the stakes are even higher—cybercriminals now aim beyond production data to corrupt or encrypt backup files, metadata, and even replication targets. That’s why IBM, Veeam, and Elastio have partnered to deliver a proactive ransomware recovery assurance solution for VCF environments. Together, they offer not just secure backup and replication, but provable recovery. This integrated approach combines Veeam’s enterprise-grade backup, IBM’s immutable storage, and Elastio’s automated ransomware scanning and backup validation, giving organizations confidence that their recovery points are clean, bootable, and compliant. Elastio seamlessly integrates into your VCF-based workloads, continuously scanning Veeam backups stored on IBM FlashSystem or object storage for signs of ransomware, encryption, and data corruption. Its AI-powered detection engine validates recoverability in an isolated, non-disruptive environment, producing detailed audit-ready reports to meet cyber insurance and regulatory standards like DORA, NYDFS, and NIST. Whether you're preparing for compliance audits or bracing for the next cyberattack, this solution ensures your last line of defense is resilient, verified, and ready to restore. Read full solution brief.

Elastio’s Quarantine for AWS Backup automatically isolates infected or suspicious recovery points, ensuring ransomware-free recoverability.

That was the central question guiding our recent executive roundtable, co-hosted by Sheltered Harbor, AWS, NetApp, and Elastio in New York City. The conversation brought together senior leaders in the financial services industry to explore what it truly takes to prepare for a ransomware event that could jeopardize data, disrupt operations, or erode customer trust. While the event was focused on financial institutions, the insights shared are relevant to any organization that views recovery as a strategic risk area. Here are three key takeaways we hope all resilience leaders will carry forward. Executive Buy-In Is Foundational Cyber resilience is not just an IT issue. It is a board-level concern that requires alignment across leadership, not only on tooling but on priorities. Everyone around the table agreed that programs stall without clear ownership, measurable objectives, and regular testing. Executives set the tone. They define what "good" looks like and ensure it is resourced and reviewed. Recovery has to be treated as a business-critical capability, not an afterthought when something goes wrong. Helpful resource: Sheltered Harbor Maturity Model for RecoveryUse this to benchmark your current state, identify gaps, and clearly communicate next steps to stakeholders. The "Three I’s" Are the New Standard for Ransomware-Ready Data Protection A recurring theme throughout the discussion was the growing adoption of the "Three I’s" framework: Immutability, Isolation, and Integrity. Immutability keeps backup data from being modified or deleted.Isolation ensures attackers cannot reach recovery data.Integrity validates that data is clean and restorable. All three are essential. Without them, attackers retain leverage and recovery remains a gamble. As one participant put it, "Immutability without integrity is just a locked box filled with poisoned data." Helpful resources:Cyber Vaults: How Regulated Sectors Fight Cyberattacks • Disaster Recovery JournalBlog on the core pillars of effective cyber vaulting Building a Sheltered Harbor compliant data vault on AWS | AWS for IndustriesHow AWS infrastructure can support immutability, isolation, and integrity Data Integrity Scanning Is Now a Core Security Control It’s no longer enough to wait for a recovery event to find out if your data is usable. That moment is too late. Continuous integrity scanning of both production and backup data is becoming a best practice across regulated sectors. Why? Because ransomware actors are now employing tactics to bypass existing tools and remain undetected, compromising recovery long before alarms go off. Expert-led scanning enables organizations to identify compromised recovery points and maintain a reliable inventory of clean data, ready when needed. Without it, organizations are flying blind. Helpful resources:Ensuring Clean Recovery Points in a World of Sophisticated & Evolving RansomwareWhy expert scans on backup data are necessary to continuously prove recoverability ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (NetApp)Behavior-based detection of ransomware in production data Want to Go Deeper? If you missed the roundtable but would like to continue the conversation, we’re happy to connect with you one-on-one. Let’s ensure your organization is prepared to recover—before an attack puts it to the test.Contact – Elastio SoftwareContact – Elastio Software About the Hosts This event brought together experts across cloud, data infrastructure, and cyber recovery: Sheltered Harbor: The financial sector’s nonprofit standard-bearer for recovery readinessElastio: The ransomware recovery assurance platform validating backup and recovery data integrityAWS: The cloud backbone supporting secure, scalable cyber resilience architecturesNetApp: The intelligent data infrastructure provider with built-in ransomware protection

On July 16, 2025, the AWS Summit took over the Javits Center in New York City, gathering cloud leaders, developers, and innovators to discuss how the next phase of cloud computing is shaping industries, transforming infrastructure, and raising the bar on resilience and trust. Two clear themes emerged from the Summit this year: Cloud Migration and Security & Compliance. These twin pillars are not just technical imperatives – they're business mandates. Organizations are increasingly moving away from legacy systems and embracing AWS cloud infrastructure for its elasticity, scalability, and global reach. However, with that transition comes heightened responsibility: how do you ensure your workloads remain secure, compliant, and recoverable in an era where threats like ransomware and increased regulatory scrutiny are on the rise? This is where Elastio, in close alignment with AWS, becomes essential. By offering integrated ransomware recovery assurance and clean restore validation, Elastio delivers exactly what today's cloud-forward enterprises need: provable control over data integrity and recovery. Cloud Migration: Making the Move with Confidence Why Cloud Migration Still Dominates the Conversation Despite the maturity of cloud computing, many enterprises are still in the early stages of their cloud journeys or are undergoing complex, multi-phase migrations. The Summit emphasized how AWS continues to evolve its migration playbooks and tooling, including: AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to simplify lift-and-shiftAWS Migration Hub to provide visibility and controlAWS DataSync and Snowball for large-scale data movement Yet, one consistent refrain from speakers and panelists was that migration isn't just about moving workloads – it's about making sure those workloads are secure, resilient, and recoverable on day one. Elastio + AWS: Cloud Migration with Recovery Assurance Built In Elastio strengthens AWS cloud migrations by ensuring organizations don't just move data; they validate that the data is safe and restorable post-migration. Here's how: Ransomware Scanning and Recovery Validation for AWS Snapshots and DRS Replicas: Elastio automatically scans AWS-native backups—including EBS Snapshots, Amazon S3 backups, and AWS DRS replicas—for indicators of compromise (IOCs). This ensures that recovery points, whether from backup or disaster recovery replicas, are clean, uncompromised, and ready for safe restoration.Recovery Assurance for Migrated Workloads: After migration, Elastio continuously monitors the recoverability of critical assets. It doesn't wait for a disaster—it tests recoverability as a regular practice, offering confidence in clean, rapid restores.AWS Native Integration: Elastio is designed to plug directly into AWS services. Whether you're using AWS Backup, EC2, or S3, Elastio works in tandem to validate the integrity of your data without disrupting operations. Cloud migration is ultimately about reducing risk and ensuring future readiness. Elastio aligns perfectly with these goals by providing an essential layer of migration hygiene, confirming not only that your data arrived safely but also that it's clean, safe, and usable. Security & Compliance: Building Trust at Scale Why This Is the Year of Compliance-Driven Cloud Security 2025 marks a turning point in how organizations approach cloud security—not just in posture, but in provability. With global regulations such as DORA, NYDFS 500, SEC cybersecurity rules, and CISA cross-sector mandates, the conversation has shifted from "do we have security?" to "can we prove it?" AWS addressed this shift with deeper investments in: Automated Security Hub IntegrationsZero Trust Architecture SupportEnd-to-End Encryption EnhancementsAudit-Ready Compliance Frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC, FedRAMP) However, one of the most frequently discussed pain points remains data recovery assurance. As attackers shift tactics and regulatory fines loom larger, companies must validate that they can recover cleanly from incidents, rather than just hoping they can. Elastio + AWS: Making Recovery a Proven Control Elastio meets this challenge head-on by transforming backup validation into a cybersecurity control. Together with AWS, it enables organizations to: Continuously Verify Recovery Readiness: Elastio automatically validates backups and snapshots in AWS environments. It checks for malware, file entropy anomalies, and corruption, ensuring that recovery points are both available and trustworthy.Maintain Immutable Recovery Points: Leveraging AWS-native immutability capabilities (e.g., S3 Object Lock, AWS Backup Vault Lock), Elastio ensures recovery artifacts can't be altered or deleted, satisfying both ransomware protection and compliance requirements.Generate Compliance-Ready Reports: Elastio delivers audit-grade logs and reports showing that every snapshot and backup has been validated for recoverability. These artifacts become powerful tools during regulatory assessments, cyber insurance reviews, or executive board reporting. In a world where CISOs are being asked to prove cyber resilience—not just posture—Elastio + AWS delivers the rare combination of proof and performance. Final Takeaway: The Future of Cloud Demands Clean Recovery The 2025 AWS Summit made one thing clear: cloud adoption is no longer just about innovation—it's about accountability. Enterprises must prove that their infrastructure is resilient, secure, and compliant. This is why the fusion of AWS's vast infrastructure services with Elastio's intelligent recovery assurance platform is so critical. As you consider your next cloud migration or evaluate your cyber readiness posture, ask not just "Can we recover?" but "Can we prove that our recovery will be clean, fast, and compliant?" With AWS and Elastio, the answer is Yes. Learn More:Cyber recovery with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Elastio Platform Elastio Integrates with AWS Backup for Secure Backups to Enhance Ransomware Defense

Why Scattered Spider Is So Effective Against Modern Enterprises Scattered Spider shows how social engineering bypasses identity controls and why recovery integrity matters more than ever. In recent months, the cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has emerged as one of the most dangerous threats facing enterprises, particularly in financial services and insurance. Unlike traditional ransomware groups that rely on malware payloads or technical exploits, Scattered Spider succeeds by targeting a more fragile attack surface: people. Their approach is a case study in modern social engineering. The group impersonates employees, manipulates help desks, and uses SIM-swapping to bypass even well-configured identity controls. Once access is gained, the timeline compresses quickly. Within hours, systems are locked with ransomware and sensitive data is exfiltrated, turning a single intrusion into a dual-extortion event. From Code to Con: Why These Attacks Work What makes Scattered Spider especially dangerous is not deep technical sophistication, but disciplined execution against weak identity processes. They exploit gaps between policy and practice: untrained support staff, inconsistent verification procedures, and detection that reacts too late. Defending against these attacks is less about new tools and more about reducing opportunities for deception while increasing visibility into abnormal behavior. Here’s where organizations should focus. Harden Identity Security Phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication is no longer optional. Hardware tokens, FIDO2 keys, and biometrics should be considered baseline controls, especially for privileged users. Additional steps that matter: Work with telecom providers to reduce SIM-swap risk.Treat vendor and third-party access as first-class identity risk. Enforce the same controls you require internally. Shore Up Help Desk Defenses Help desks are a consistent point of failure in these campaigns. A rushed or under-resourced support interaction can undo otherwise strong security controls. To reduce exposure: Train support staff to recognize impersonation tactics and urgency-based manipulation.Require multiple layers of identity verification before resetting credentials or modifying MFA.Monitor and audit help desk actions tied to account recovery or privilege changes. Detect Abnormal Behavior Earlier Once attackers gain access, speed matters. Early detection of lateral movement, off-hours access, or privilege escalation can dramatically reduce impact. Prioritize: Behavioral detection that focuses on anomalous actions, not just known indicators.Alerting on sudden role changes, new login locations, or access to dormant systems. Prove You Can Recover Backups remain necessary, but they are no longer sufficient on their own. Too many organizations discover during an incident that their “last good backup” was already compromised. Prove which backups are actually clean. Recovery needs to be treated as a provable control: Validate backup integrity regularly to ensure data hasn’t been silently encrypted or corrupted.Detect ransomware signals within backup data itself, not just in production environments.Test recovery under realistic conditions so decisions aren’t made for the first time during a crisis. Cloud-native architectures are not inherently safe from ransomware. Final Thought: Resilience in the Age of Deception Scattered Spider isn’t winning by bypassing technology, they’re exploiting the gaps between identity controls, human processes, and recovery confidence. As social engineering becomes the primary access vector, resilience depends on more than prevention—it depends on knowing, with certainty, what can be trusted after an intrusion. Ransomware recovery is no longer about whether data exists, but whether its integrity can be proven before restoration. Organizations that treat recovery as a provable control—rather than an assumption—are the ones that shorten downtime, reduce blast radius, and avoid compounding an incident with uncertainty. If your security strategy accounts for identity compromise but not recovery integrity, now is the time to pressure-test that assumption.

As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated and regulatory demands intensify, organizations must evolve their data protection strategies beyond traditional backup. That’s why we’re excited to highlight AWS Backup’s new multi-party approval capability—an added layer of protection designed to safeguard critical backup operations from malicious or accidental changes. This feature aligns closely with Elastio’s mission to ensure clean, restorable, and provably recoverable data. Together, AWS and Elastio are empowering enterprises with greater control, visibility, and confidence in their backup and recovery workflows—helping to reduce ransomware risk and accelerate operational recovery when it matters most. Read full blog.

In today’s hybrid cloud environments, data protection is more than just backup—it’s about resilience, security, and assured recoverability. As threats like ransomware grow more sophisticated and compliance demands tighten, IT leaders must go beyond traditional disaster recovery plans and adopt a strategy that ensures not only that data exists, but that it’s clean, restorable, and proven. That’s where the combination of IBM Cloud VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Veeam, and Elastio—what Neil Taylor calls the Data Protection Trinity—comes into play. Together, they create a modern, integrated architecture that balances high availability with ransomware resilience and recovery assurance. Neil’s blog breaks down how each piece of the puzzle plays a critical role: IBM Cloud VCF provides the cloud-smart infrastructure,Veeam delivers robust data backup and replication,Elastio brings real-time threat detection and clean recovery validation. This trio doesn’t just protect your data—it ensures you can trust it when it matters most. Read the full article here to see how the Data Protection Trinity is redefining recovery readiness in the hybrid cloud era.

Ransomware attacks are accelerating exponentially, with global damages projected to reach $57 billion annually by 2025. While prevention remains critical, experts now agree that it’s not a matter of if, but when, organizations will face an attack, making effective recovery strategies equally vital. Enter cyber vaulting: a novel approach gaining traction across regulated industries to combat sophisticated threats. Built around the principles of immutability and air-gap isolation, cyber vaults create a secure buffer zone for critical data, protecting it from corruption, deletion, or unauthorized access. This resilient strategy complements traditional backups by validating integrity and rebuilding trust in recovery processes. In the latest feature from Disaster Recovery JournalDisaster Recovery Journal, industry leaders break down why cyber vaulting is becoming indispensable for ransomware resilience. From vaulting architecture essentials to regulatory compliance considerations, the article outlines how a robust cyber vault can help organizations: Maintain a clean, verifiable source of truth.Comply with stringent standards (GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and beyond).Reclaim operations swiftly without yielding to ransom demands. Whether you're a CISO, IT lead, or IT resilience advocate, this piece offers strategic insights to rethink your cybersecurity posture. Ready to explore how cyber vaulting can fortify your defense-in-depth strategy—and why it’s emerging as a must-have for ransomware readiness? Let’s dive in. Read more on Cyber Vaults: How Regulated Sectors Fight CyberattacksCyber Vaults: How Regulated Sectors Fight Cyberattacks Learn More at www.elastio.com

Why Clean Recoverability is the New Cyber Imperative The shift to the cloud has brought speed, agility, and scalability to enterprise IT. However, it has also introduced new vulnerabilities, particularly in the context of ransomware. For cloud-first organizations, traditional backup and disaster recovery strategies are no longer enough. Ransomware resilience now depends on your ability to validate, detect, and recover with confidence. And that’s precisely where Elastio comes in. Cloud Speed, Cloud Risk Enterprises are moving faster than ever — launching apps, scaling workloads, and deploying infrastructure in real time. But while infrastructure has modernized, many organizations still rely on legacy approaches to backup and recovery. The problem? Ransomware is evolving faster than your snapshots. Attackers know that backups are a company’s last line of defense. That’s why modern ransomware strains are now designed to remain undetected, lie dormant, and encrypt your backups along with your data. Detection Is Not Enough. Recovery Is Everything. Most cybersecurity strategies focus heavily on prevention and detection. But what happens when those fail — and they often do? Studies show that: 31% of organizations with backups still fail to fully recover after a ransomware attack.In cloud environments, automated snapshotting alone can preserve infections, leaving you with clean-looking but corrupted data. You don’t just need backups. You need to know they’re clean. The Elastio Advantage: Proven Clean Recoverability Elastio delivers the industry’s most advanced ransomware recovery assurance platform, purpose-built for cloud-first environments. Unlike traditional DR or backup tools, Elastio integrates directly into your cloud workflows and brings three critical capabilities to the table: 1. Continuous Scan & Detection at the Backup Layer Elastio automatically and proactively scans backups and snapshots for ransomware encryption before they are restored, using behavioral ransomware detection and integrity checks. This ensures: No active or dormant ransomware gets preserved.You catch threats hiding in backups that others miss. 2. Recovery Validation The platform continuously validates your backups, so you always know: Which restore points are provably clean.Where your last known good copy lives.What can be safely recovered before an incident occurs. 3. Automated, Orchestrated Recovery Elastio integrates with AWS DRS and cloud-native tooling to orchestrate clean, secure restores. In the event of an attack, you can: Recover systems confidently in hours, not days.Avoid reinfection loops or post-recovery data loss.Deliver on compliance and business continuity SLAs. Why Cloud-First Enterprises Choose Elastio If you’ve already moved your workloads to the cloud, your security and recovery architecture must follow. Elastio is the only platform that: Scans Backup snapshots to ensure Ransomware encryption is not presentValidates and logs the last clean recovery pointAutomates clean restoresSupports Cloud-native environments Elastio helps cloud-first enterprises turn backups into a security asset, not a hidden liability. Final Word: Make Recovery a Security Control Ransomware will get in. That’s a fact. The question is: Can you identify it quickly, recover cleanly, and completely? With Elastio, recovery is no longer a desperate last resort — it’s a proven, tested, and secure capability built into your cloud operations. Ready to Strengthen Your Ransomware Resilience? Read the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog – Cyber recovery with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Elastio Platform Download the Elastio Solution Brief to learn how provable recovery changes the game for ransomware protection in cloud-first enterprises. Or contact us today for a demo.

Ransomware recovery is no longer just a tech problem—it’s a business imperative. As attacks grow more advanced and regulators demand verifiable data integrity, organizations need more than just backups. They need proof they can recover cleanly. That’s why we’re excited to announce a new partnership between Elastio and RKON, a premier managed services and cybersecurity consultancy. This collaboration brings Elastio’s recovery assurance platform into RKON’s managed services portfolio, making it easier than ever for regulated industries to detect ransomware in their backup environments and restore operations with confidence. Together, Elastio and RKON are delivering: Expert ransomware detection and clean restore validationSeamless managed service integration for hands-free recovery readinessProven compliance support for sectors like finance, healthcare, and insurance Whether through direct resale or managed service delivery, this partnership helps clients close a critical gap in their cyber resilience strategy: provable, ransomware-free recovery. Read the full announcement and learn how RKON and Elastio are redefining cyber recovery at scaleRead the full announcement and learn how RKON and Elastio are redefining cyber recovery at scale

When ransomware hits, your fail-over environment is your last line of defense—but what if they’re already compromised? In this new AWS blog, learn how Elastio and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) are working together to give cloud-first enterprises a decisive new advantage: the ability to detect ransomware in snapshots and backups, validate clean restore points, and automate recovery workflows directly within AWS. Together, AWS and Elastio help organizations: Identify and isolate ransomware before recovery beginsValidate the integrity of replicated data in real-timeOrchestrate clean, secure restores with speed and confidence Read the full AWS blog to see how this integrated solution is raising the bar for ransomware resilience in the cloud:Cyber Recovery with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and the Elastio Platform › Ready to see more? Sign up for a demo.

In an increasingly cloud-first world, ransomware is no longer a distant threat—it’s an ever-present risk. While organizations have adopted the agility and scalability of the cloud, many still lack the recovery assurance necessary to bounce back quickly in the event of a cyberattack. That’s why Elastio is proud to announce a strategic value-added reseller (VAR) partnership with Cloud Elemental, a leading cloud consultancy known for its deep expertise in AWS modernization, automation, and DevOps transformation. This new alliance brings together Elastio’s industry-leading Ransomware Recovery Assurance Platform with Cloud Elemental’s high-impact cloud transformation services. Together, we’re making it easier for organizations to build resilient AWS environments that are not only scalable and secure but also provably recoverable. “Ransomware resilience starts with recovery readiness,” said Christopher Sauer, Global VP of Strategic Alliances and Channels at Elastio. “Cloud Elemental’s cloud-native expertise combined with our platform ensures customers can detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware with confidence.” Cloud Elemental’s consulting services already emphasize security-by-design, automation-first delivery, and robust DevOps enablement. With the addition of Elastio’s platform, their customers gain a powerful layer of real-time ransomware detection, clean recovery point validation, and backup data integrity—essentials in today’s threat landscape. “Ransomware isn’t just an IT problem—it’s a business risk,” said Chinh Mai, CEO of Cloud Elemental. “Elastio gives our customers the assurance that their cloud backups aren’t just stored—they’re ready for recovery when it matters most.” This partnership is now live, enabling organizations to combine cloud agility with cyber resilience—and ensuring that, in the face of ransomware, recovery isn’t just a possibility, but a certainty. Read the full article.