Ransomware Recovery Assurance for IBM Cloud Object Storage

As cloud object storage powers AI and critical workloads, data integrity is essential. Elastio ensures IBM Cloud Object Storage data is clean, recoverable, and safe to use even against silent ransomware.

IBM and Elastio

As more organizations rely on cloud object storage to power AI workloads, backups, analytics, and business-critical applications, the integrity of that data becomes foundational to trust and resilience. Yet modern ransomware increasingly targets data, quietly encrypting or corrupting objects in ways that bypass traditional security controls and remain hidden until recovery fails, migrations spread the damage, or AI systems consume compromised data.

Only Elastio adds an expert data integrity validation layer to IBM Cloud Object Storage, giving organizations continuous confidence - and proof - that their data is clean, recoverable, and safe to use before it’s restored, moved, or put to work across the business.

Expert Ransomware Protection Across IBM Cloud Object Storage

Elastio integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) to add an expert data integrity layer that detects ransomware encryption, data corruption, and malware directly within stored object data.

Built on a machine-learning model trained through more than a decade of ransomware research, Elastio identifies both known and zero-day encryption techniques, including slow, stealthy, and fileless attacks designed to evade traditional security tools.

Key Features

  1. Continuous, Verified Data Integrity
    Strengthens IBM’s high-performance, immutable object storage by proving data is clean and uncompromised before it’s ever used, restored, or moved.
  2. Data-Centric Ransomware Detection
    Goes beyond signature-based scanning by analyzing the data itself to detect ransomware encryption and corruption, including fileless, polymorphic, and zero-day attacks that bypass AV and EDR.
  3. Proactive Ransomware Protection in the Data Layer
    Elevates IBM Cloud Object Storage from durable storage to intelligent cyber storage, adding ransomware awareness where traditional tools lack visibility.
  4. Compliance & Board-Ready Assurance
    Helps regulated organizations demonstrate data integrity with objective evidence — supporting audits, regulatory requirements, and executive reporting.
  5. Seamless Integration
    Native integration, API alignment, and consolidated billing make Elastio an easy add-on to existing IBM Cloud Object Storage investments.

Use Cases

Recovery Assurance

A backup is only valuable if it can actually be used to recover the business. Today’s attackers increasingly target recovery paths directly—subtly corrupting or encrypting data below traditional detection thresholds so it’s unknowingly backed up. Elastio proactively scans data before and after it’s protected, giving organizations confidence that the data in their backups is clean, intact, and truly recoverable when it matters most.

Ransomware Encryption Detection

Modern ransomware routinely bypasses EDR and antivirus using fileless techniques, polymorphic variants, and slow, stealthy encryption designed to evade runtime detection. Elastio detects the impact of ransomware in the data itself—identifying encryption and corruption early, even when the malware is no longer present. This provides critical visibility into an attack before it spreads and before recovery options are compromised.

Migration Validation

Whether migrating data for disaster recovery, cloud modernization, or platform transitions, organizations can’t afford to move compromised data forward. Elastio validates data integrity during replication and migration, ensuring ransomware, corruption, or hidden damage isn’t carried into new environments—so migrations strengthen resilience instead of amplifying risk.

Compliance & Data Integrity Assurance

Regulators increasingly expect organizations to prove - not assume - that their data is intact and recoverable. Elastio delivers continuous visibility into data integrity, providing objective, auditable evidence that stored data is being inspected for ransomware and corruption. This supports compliance requirements, simplifies audits, and gives executives clear assurance around recovery readiness.

AI Security

As organizations rely on cloud object storage to power AI and analytics, the integrity of training and inference data becomes mission-critical and a prime target for attackers. Elastio proactively inspects data integrity to ensure compromised, malicious, or corrupted data does not poison AI models or undermine downstream decision-making, protecting the trustworthiness of AI-driven systems.