AWS

AWS Security Hub

Elastio integrates with AWS Security Hub to provide complete visibility into the integrity of your backups, snapshots, and cloud storage. By sending ransomware-encryption alerts, corruption findings, and clean-recovery indicators directly into Security Hub, Elastio helps security teams connect recovery risks with broader AWS threat activity. Analysts can quickly identify compromised recovery points, trigger automated remediation workflows, and ensure restores originate from a verified clean state, all within their centralized AWS security console.

Integration Overview

The Elastio + AWS Security Hub integration brings backup and cloud-storage integrity directly into your centralized AWS security view. Elastio continuously inspects backups, snapshots, and cloud object storage for ransomware encryption, corruption, and anomalous change patterns. When an issue is detected, Elastio sends rich, context-aware alert notifications into AWS Security Hub as findings.

Security teams can then view recovery-integrity signals alongside GuardDuty, IAM, and VPC data, correlate compromised recovery points with other AWS security events, drive automated remediation with AWS services, and prove recoverability, all from within Security Hub.

Integration Benefits

Centralized ransomware recovery assurance: Monitor Elastio’s ransomware detections, corruption findings, and recovery-point health as native findings inside AWS Security Hub, alongside the rest of your AWS security posture.
Accelerated incident response: Include Elastio’s “last known clean” recovery point (R-RPO) in Security Hub findings so responders know exactly which backup or snapshot is safe to restore. No guesswork during an incident.
Stronger correlation across AWS signals: Correlate Elastio integrity anomalies with GuardDuty threats, CloudTrail events, IAM activity, and VPC flow logs to uncover stealthy ransomware and data-tampering behavior earlier.
Automated remediation workflows: Use Security Hub automation and integrations (e.g., EventBridge, Lambda, Systems Manager) to trigger playbooks when Elastio flags compromised backups, such as isolating affected resources or initiating clean restores.
Audit-ready compliance evidence: Persist Elastio scan results, clean/dirty determinations, and recovery-assurance findings in Security Hub to support NYDFS, DORA, NIST, and cyber-insurance proof-of-recoverability requirements.

Better Together

Elastio provides deep data-at-rest inspection that traditional security tools don’t reach: scanning backups, snapshots, and cloud storage for ransomware encryption, unexpected encryption patterns, and silent corruption. This creates a dynamic “Ransomware RPO” that clearly separates clean recovery points from compromised ones.

AWS Security Hub aggregates, normalizes, and prioritizes security findings from across AWS and supported third-party tools, giving security teams a single console to understand and act on their security posture.

Together, Elastio and AWS Security Hub turn backup integrity into an active security control. Elastio continuously feeds “recovery intelligence” into Security Hub so that when a backup is compromised, the SOC is alerted through a standard AWS finding, an investigation is immediately triggered, and responders are guided to the precise point in time needed for a clean recovery.

Use Case Overview

Proving Clean Recovery in Your AWS Security Posture

When ransomware targets cloud workloads, teams often discover too late that their backups and snapshots have also been encrypted or corrupted. This integration ensures that the same console used to monitor AWS security risk also shows which recovery points are actually safe.

Challenge

Blind spots in backup and snapshot integrity: Security teams see GuardDuty alerts and IAM anomalies, but typically have no direct visibility into whether EBS snapshots, RDS backups, or S3 objects have been compromised.
Risky, time-consuming recoveries: During an incident, responders frequently restore the most recent snapshot by default, potentially redeploying ransomware and extending downtime while they manually test backups.
Fragmented evidence for auditors and insurers: Recoverability proof often lives inside backup tools and logs that are disconnected from the core security view, making it hard to demonstrate that a chosen restore point was verified clean.

Solution

Automated integrity findings in Security Hub: Elastio streams alerts (such as detected ransomware encryption, corruption, or suspicious change rates) into AWS Security Hub as structured findings the moment they are discovered.
Guided, clean recovery workflow: Security Hub findings enriched with Elastio’s clean/dirty status and R-RPO indicators show exactly which recovery points are safe to use, helping incident responders avoid restoring compromised data.
Continuous compliance visibility: Historical Elastio findings retained in Security Hub create a centralized, audit-ready record of integrity scans and recovery validations, supporting regulatory reviews and cyber-insurance assessments.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about this integration.

What does Elastio send to AWS Security Hub?

Elastio publishes findings about ransomware detection inside your AWS backups, snapshots, and S3 data, including which recovery points are compromised and which are the last known clean restore points. Findings appear in Security Hub alongside data from GuardDuty, Inspector, and Macie.

How does the Elastio Security Hub integration work?

Elastio writes findings to Security Hub via the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) using the standard BatchImportFindings API. No agents, no proxies. Elastio’s hunt results stream directly into your Security Hub account from the moment the integration is enabled.

Does Elastio replace GuardDuty or Inspector in Security Hub?

No. GuardDuty and Inspector detect threats in compute and network layers. Elastio adds backup-integrity and data-layer ransomware findings that those tools don’t produce, so they’re complementary, not overlapping.

How long does the AWS Security Hub integration take to deploy?

Typically under 30 minutes for an existing Elastio tenant. You enable the connector in your Elastio console, grant the Security Hub IAM permissions documented in the setup guide, and findings begin flowing on the next hunt cycle.

Can I trigger automated remediation from an Elastio Security Hub finding?

Yes. Findings include the structured metadata needed to wire EventBridge rules and Lambda functions: e.g., quarantine a recovery point, page an on-call responder, or open a Jira ticket whenever Elastio flags a backup as compromised.

What IAM permissions does the Elastio Security Hub integration require?

Read/write access to Security Hub findings in the target account, plus permission to enable the Elastio finding-provider product. Full IAM policy is published in the integration setup documentation.

Does Elastio support cross-account findings in AWS Security Hub?

Yes. Elastio can publish findings into a delegated administrator Security Hub account so SOC teams running multi-account AWS environments see all Elastio findings in one place.

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