IBM QRadar

Integration Overview

The Elastio + IBM QRadar integration brings backup and cloud-storage integrity into the SOC’s primary detection and investigation platform. By ingesting Elastio’s deep inspection telemetry—including AI-driven ransomware encryption detection, corruption analysis, and clean-recovery validation—QRadar becomes the authoritative source of truth for the integrity of your recovery data. Security analysts can now correlate compromised backup events with network, identity, and endpoint activity, enrich offenses with recovery-state intelligence, automate response rules, and prove recoverability without leaving QRadar.

Integration Benefits

Centralized recovery-integrity visibility
Surface Elastio’s real-time ransomware encryption alerts, corruption findings, and recovery-point health directly inside QRadar dashboards and offenses.

Accelerated incident response
Eliminate the uncertainty of ransomware recovery by enriching QRadar offenses with Elastio’s “last known clean” recovery point, ensuring teams restore from safe data on the first attempt.

Enhanced threat correlation
Combine Elastio integrity anomalies—which often bypass traditional EDR and log-based detections—with QRadar network, UEBA, and identity signals to detect stealthy attacks earlier.

Audit-ready compliance evidence
Automatically log all integrity checks, clean/dirty recovery statuses, and successful validation scans in QRadar for NYDFS, DORA, NIST, and cyber-insurance requirements.

Better Together

Elastio delivers a capability absent from traditional security tooling: deep data-at-rest inspection inside backups, snapshots, and cloud object storage. It identifies ransomware encryption, malicious tampering, and data corruption, establishing a dynamic “Ransomware RPO” (R-RPO) that distinguishes clean recovery points from compromised ones.

QRadar acts as the central analytics engine for the SOC—correlating events, producing offenses, and orchestrating response actions based on customizable rules and threat models.

Together, they transform backups from a passive IT component into an active security control. Elastio continuously streams recovery intelligence into QRadar so analysts know immediately when a backup is compromised and exactly which restore point is safe. When Elastio detects a threat, QRadar can trigger offenses, launch playbooks, and guide investigators to the clean recovery point required for a safe restore.

Use Case Overview: Proving Clean Recovery in the SOC

Ransomware response often collapses at the recovery stage because security teams lack visibility into backup integrity until restore time. This integration brings clean-vs-compromised recovery insight directly into QRadar investigations.

Challenge

Blind spots in backup data
Most SIEMs—including QRadar—receive extensive endpoint and network signals but have no visibility into whether backups themselves have been encrypted or tampered with.

Risky, slow recovery
During an active incident, responders waste precious hours manually checking backups to find a clean version—often restoring infected data and prolonging downtime.

Limited evidence for auditors
Regulators and insurers now expect proof of recoverability, but integrity data typically lives inside backup tools the SOC never monitors.

Solution

Automated integrity telemetry
Elastio streams ransomware-encryption detections, corruption findings, and clean/dirty recovery statuses into QRadar as structured log sources—instantly enriching the SOC’s detection pipeline.

Guided recovery workflows
QRadar dashboards and offenses can highlight Elastio’s R-RPO timeline, showing analysts exactly when compromise occurred and which recovery point is safe to restore.

Continuous compliance reporting
QRadar retains Elastio’s integrity-validation events as audit-ready evidence of recoverability, supporting frameworks such as NYDFS, DORA, NIST CSF, and cyber-insurance assessments.