Cursor
Turn Cursor into a conversational window into your Elastio security data. With the Elastio MCP Server enabling Cursor’s Model Context Protocol integration, you can ask clear natural-language questions about ransomware risks, recovery point status, insider threat activity, and backup health, and receive responses based solely on your real Elastio scan results.
Why This Matters
Ransomware resilience is no longer only a security team responsibility. Developers, SREs, platform engineers, and cloud teams all play a role in ensuring clean recovery points, identifying compromised workloads, and maintaining backup integrity. Yet these insights are often buried in security dashboards or ticketing systems that developers rarely access.
Cursor brings this information directly into the development workflow.
By connecting Cursor to Elastio through the MCP Server, you can ask natural-language questions about your environment and receive precise, real-time answers based on your actual Elastio scan data. Cursor becomes a conversational assistant that helps developers and security teams quickly understand ransomware exposure and recovery readiness without slowing down their work.
With the Elastio MCP integration, Cursor can provide:
- Immediate identification of cloud resources with active or historical ransomware threats
- Quick access to the latest clean and validated recovery points for EC2, EBS, S3, and Kubernetes
- Plain-language summaries of infected files, risk levels, and remediation guidance
- Fast visibility into backup coverage gaps and failed scans across the environment
Sample questions you can ask Cursor include:
- "Which resources show recent ransomware findings?"
- "List all assets that lack a usable clean recovery point."
- "Summarize the most severe threats detected this month."
Cursor replies with accurate responses based on deterministic Elastio telemetry. Nothing is inferred and nothing is guessed.
Key Capabilities
Direct MCP Connectivity within Cursor
- Cursor communicates with the Elastio MCP Server using the Model Context Protocol.
- No external plugins or agents are required; everything is powered by MCP.
Developer-Centric Threat Exploration
- View ransomware variants, threat locations, and recovery gaps without leaving the coding environment.
- Ideal for developers involved in security reviews, incident response, or platform operations.
Clean Recovery Point Awareness
- Retrieve the most recent validated recovery point for any supported asset.
- Essential for ensuring that restore operations are possible during emergencies.
Backup Integrity and Coverage Insights
- Ask Cursor to identify resources that have stale, missing, or compromised backups.
- Supports compliance initiatives and disaster recovery planning.
Incident Interpretation and Summaries
- Cursor can outline incident scope, affected assets, severity ratings, and recommended actions.
- Reduces time spent correlating information across tools.
Automated Security and Resilience Reports
- Generate summaries for audits, executive briefings, or internal readiness assessments.
How It Works (High-Level Architecture)
- The Elastio MCP Server runs within your environment and connects securely to your Elastio SaaS tenant.
- Cursor communicates with this MCP Server to request ransomware scan results, metadata about threats, and recovery point information.
- Elastio returns real-time, deterministic data that exactly matches what appears in the Elastio console.
- Cursor processes the information and produces readable explanations, analyses, or workflows.
- Teams use the insights to validate backup recoverability and investigate threats with greater speed.
Important: Elastio does not send your data to Cursor or any external AI provider.
Only the MCP Server inside your environment handles metadata retrieval.
Deployment Scenarios and Use Cases
Security and SOC Engineering
Use Cursor to explore threats, scan histories, and coverage gaps in a fast conversational workflow.
Incident Response and Forensic Analysis
Quickly understand the blast radius of ransomware events and see which assets remain recoverable.
Backup and DR Engineering
Verify the availability and integrity of clean recovery points directly from the coding environment.
Compliance and Governance
Produce concise summaries that help satisfy audit controls and cyber insurance requirements.
Cloud, Platform, and DevOps Teams
Monitor misconfigurations, incomplete scan coverage, or outdated recovery points across cloud workloads.
Developer Empowerment
Give developers real-time visibility into ransomware posture without requiring separate security tools.
Setup and Prerequisites
Cursor Clients Supported
✓ Cursor Desktop
✓ MCP-enabled Cursor environments
✓ Remote development environments that allow MCP configuration
Elastio Requirements
- Elastio SaaS tenant
- MCP service account or appropriate API credentials
- Ransomware scanning enabled across supported workloads
MCP Server Deployment Steps
- Deploy the Elastio MCP Server in your environment.
- Configure secure connectivity to Elastio SaaS.
- Add the MCP Server configuration to Cursor.
- Follow deployment documentation to finalize setup.
Once connected, Cursor becomes a fast and intuitive interface to your ransomware and recovery assurance data.
Why Elastio + Cursor Instead of a Generic AI Assistant
Generic AI tools provide generalized answers with no connection to your environment.
Elastio plus Cursor uses deterministic telemetry from your actual infrastructure.
This gives you:
- Zero-hallucination ransomware and recovery data
- Real-time validation of recovery readiness
- Accurate summaries of risks and infected assets
- A frictionless workflow for developers and engineers
Cursor becomes a reliable, context-aware security resource inside your development environment.