VS Code

Why This Matters

Security responsibilities increasingly touch engineering teams, yet developers often lack visibility into ransomware risks, backup integrity, and clean recovery point readiness. These insights usually live in SOC dashboards or backup consoles, far from where developers spend their time.

VS Code changes this dynamic.

With Elastio’s MCP integration, VS Code becomes a natural-language security assistant inside your editor. You can ask questions about ransomware exposure, compromised assets, and validated recovery points using plain English, and receive deterministic answers sourced directly from your Elastio environment.

Through the Elastio MCP Server, VS Code can provide:

• Instant visibility into active ransomware threats across EC2, EBS, S3, and Kubernetes
• Immediate retrieval of clean, validated recovery points for any asset
• Natural-language summaries of infected files, severity levels, and remediation guidance
• Rapid confirmation of recovery readiness across your cloud infrastructure

You can ask VS Code questions like:

• "Do I have any resources with active threats right now?"
• "Which systems are missing clean recovery points?"
• "Show me the ransomware variants detected in my environment this week."

VS Code responds using deterministic Elastio scan results. There is no speculation or hallucination.

Key Capabilities

Native MCP Integration with VS Code

• VS Code communicates directly with your Elastio MCP Server through the Model Context Protocol.
• No agents or plugins required beyond the MCP client configuration in your editor.

Security-Aware Development Environment

• Ask about ransomware risks and recovery posture at any time without leaving VS Code.
• Developers gain visibility that previously required SOC tools or backup platforms.

Natural-Language Threat Exploration

• Explore ransomware variants, infected paths, threat severity, and failed scans using simple prompts.
• Useful during debugging, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

Clean Recovery Point Identification

• Request the most recent validated recovery point for any asset in your Elastio environment.
• Essential during outage recovery planning or ransomware drills.

Backup Integrity and Compliance Visibility

• Identify which backups are clean, compromised, missing coverage, or overdue for scanning.
• Supports SOC 2, PCI, cyber insurer requirements, and internal audit processes.

Incident Response Summaries

• VS Code can outline remediation steps, highlight critical threats, and summarize incident impact.
• Reduces reliance on multiple consoles during high-pressure situations.

Automated Reporting

• Generate developer-friendly summaries or detailed security readiness reports within your editor.

How It Works (High-Level Architecture)

1. The Elastio MCP Server runs inside your environment and connects securely to your Elastio SaaS tenant.
2. VS Code uses its MCP client to request ransomware telemetry, clean recovery points, and threat metadata.
3. Elastio returns deterministic, real-time results that match the data displayed in the Elastio console.
4. VS Code interprets the metadata and presents readable explanations, summaries, or guidance.
5. Developers, SREs, and security teams act on VS Code insights to validate recovery readiness or investigate threats.

Important: Elastio does not send your data to Microsoft or any AI provider.
The MCP Server remains local in your environment and only shares sanitized metadata for analysis.

Deployment Scenarios and Use Cases

Security Operations and SOC Analysts

Use VS Code to explore threats, identify scan failures, and understand variant impact without relying solely on dashboards.

Incident Response and Forensics

Ask VS Code for infected paths, asset summaries, severity levels, and available clean recovery points during investigations.

Backup and Recovery Engineering

Verify backup integrity and locate validated recovery points for disaster readiness.

Compliance and Executive Reporting

Produce plain-language summaries that support audits and cyber insurance requests.

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

Identify unmanaged resources, coverage gaps, or assets missing recovery assurance.

Developer Productivity and Security Awareness

Give developers fast access to real-time security context within the environment they use every day.

Setup and Prerequisites

VS Code Clients Supported

✓ VS Code Desktop
✓ Any MCP-enabled VS Code environment
✓ Cloud-based VS Code instances that support MCP configuration

Elastio Requirements

• Active Elastio SaaS tenant
• MCP service account or API credentials
• Elastio ransomware scanning enabled across workloads

MCP Server Deployment

1. Deploy the Elastio MCP Server in your environment.
2. Configure secure connectivity to the Elastio SaaS platform.
3. Add the MCP server configuration to your VS Code settings.
4. Follow the step-by-step deployment guide for production readiness.

Once configured, VS Code becomes a streamlined interface to your ransomware posture and recovery readiness.

Why Elastio + VS Code Instead of a Generic AI Assistant

Generic AI tools rely on public knowledge or inference.
Elastio plus VS Code provides real, deterministic data from your environment.

You gain:

• Deterministic scan results with no hallucination
• Real-time ransomware exposure analytics
• Verified clean recovery point insights
• A security-aware interface directly inside your developer workflow

VS Code becomes a reliable and context-aware ransomware advisor for engineering teams.