Prevention Alone Doesn’t Equal Resilience

Ransomware Readiness: Prevention Alone Doesn’t Equal Resilience

CrowdStrike’s latest State of Ransomware report is a wake-up call for every CISO, CIO, and board leader who believes their organization is “ready.”

Key Takeaways from their report: 

• 78% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the past year
• 83% of those who paid were attacked again
• And 76% say it’s getting harder to stay prepared in the age of AI-driven attacks

The numbers tell a clear story: ransomware is outpacing prevention. Despite sophisticated detection and backup systems, most organizations still face the same outcome; disrupted operations, damaged trust, and recovery uncertainty.

Confidence Without Recovery Is a Liability

CrowdStrike’s findings expose a truth that even the C-suite can’t ignore: most organizations are confident in their defenses, but few can prove they can recover cleanly.

That confidence gap is now a governance issue. Cyber resilience isn’t just about stopping attacks, it’s about demonstrating recoverability with evidence. When backups are silently compromised or corrupted, confidence evaporates, and recovery becomes another failure point. At this point, boards and regulators can no longer accept assumptions. They want proof that data integrity is maintained and that recovery is verifiable.

The New Mandate: From Prevention to Proven Recovery

Prevention technologies like CrowdStrike remain critical to keeping threats out. But when ransomware inevitably breaches the perimeter, the focus shifts to one question: Can you recover cleanly?

That’s where Elastio complements CrowdStrike.

While CrowdStrike protects endpoints with detection and prevention, Elastio ensures your data and recovery path are secure. By continuously validating data integrity across cloud and hybrid environments, Elastio detects ransomware, insider threats, and data corruption in backups,  pinpointing the last known clean recovery point before it’s needed.

AI Escalates the Threat, Integrity Assurance Closes the Gap

With 76% of leaders admitting it’s harder to stay ready amid AI-driven attacks, ransomware has evolved from a security problem to a resilience problem. And we are all well aware that AI makes attacks faster, stealthier, and harder to detect until it’s too late. That’s why integrity assurance has become the new frontier of cyber resilience.

Elastio’s continuous scanning and validation provide CISOs and boards with auditable proof that their backup and recovery infrastructure is clean, compliant, and ready to perform. It’s a shift from passive backup management to active ransomware readiness — and it’s fast becoming a best practice for enterprise resilience.

Downtime hurts. Failed recovery hurts more.

Elastio delivers a proven security control for ransomware readiness — continuously scanning backups, snapshots, and replicas across cloud and hybrid environments to detect ransomware encryption, insider threats, and data corruption.

With Elastio, organizations can:

• Reduce downtime with verified clean recovery points
• Validate recoveries before they’re needed
• Maintain compliance and prove recoverability to auditors and boards

This is recovery you can trust — ensuring data integrity, operational resilience, and ransomware readiness across the enterprise.

Resilience Isn’t a Guess — It’s Proven

CrowdStrike helps you stop ransomware from breaking into endpoints. Elastio ensures it can’t win by breaking recovery. 

For today’s C-suite, resilience isn’t about “being ready”, it’s about recovery. Because when 78% of organizations are hit by ransomware, your real test isn’t prevention. It’s the day after, the cost of downtime, the brand integrity, and the customer loss.

Elastio ROI: Industry benchmarks (Gartner, IBM, Ponemon) show.

• Average ransomware downtime: 20–23 days
• Average cost of downtime: $8,000–$25,000 per hour (Gartner 2025)
• Average enterprise impact per incident: $1.85M (IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024)

Even modest downtime, say 24 hours, can translate to $192K–$600K in direct losses (operations, productivity, and customer impact).

Elastio’s Impact

• Detecting ransomware early (before backup compromise)
• Validating clean recovery points
• Reducing recovery time by up to 80%

Even one avoided or shortened outage pays for Elastio 20x over. Is ransomware recovery worth $25+K? Our customers think so. 

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