AI-Driven Ransomware Detection
Malware scanners only catch yesterday’s threats. Modern ransomware hides in snapshots and backups, bypassing endpoint and CNAPP defenses. Elastio was built to expose these hidden attacks, proving every recovery point is clean and safe to restore.
Why Malware, Anomaly, and Entropy Scans Fail?
1. Signature-Dependent
Malware scanners rely on known patterns, missing novel or polymorphic attacks.
2. Entropy & Anomaly Blind Spots
Partial encryption keeps file entropy low, while “low-and-slow” attacks spread encryption gradually. Both tactics bypass anomaly- and entropy-based tools.
3. False Assurance
A “malware clean” or “entropy normal” result doesn’t mean backups are recoverable. Ransomware encryption still corrupts backups silently.
Modern Tactics That Evade Current Security Tools
Ransomware keeps changing its playbook. Partial encryption, metadata tricks, slow encryption, and file renaming are just a few tactics that now bypass traditional malware detection, backup validation, and CNAPP tools.
Partial Encryption
Low file entropy tricks signature and entropy-based scanners.
Unchanged Metadata
Metadata-only scans never see the corruption.
Base64 Encoding
Obfuscated content slips through unless files are deeply inspected.
Slow Encryption
Gradual encryption over days evades anomaly-based alerts.
File Renaming
Renamed files break the link to originals, making clean recovery impossible.
Elastio’s Data Integrity Engine
Elastio’s AI-driven Data Integrity Engine was purpose-built to detect advanced tactics and Zero-Day ransomware before they corrupt recovery.
Deterministic Models
Reverse-engineered and detonated 2,300+ ransomware families and 10,000+ variants.
Highly accurate at detecting real encryption behaviors, not just signatures.
Behavioral Models
AI/ML models detect zero-day, polymorphic and file-less ransomware.
Extremely low false positives: fewer than 5 in 10 million files, 99.998% accuracy.
Detects zero-day ransomware with 98.4% accuracy
Temporal Analysis
Tracks file changes over time to expose slow and obfuscated encryption.
Detects modern ransomware that bypasses endpoint and backup anomaly detection.
Why This Matters to You?
“I need to prove we can recover from ransomware, not just assume. Elastio gives me verifiable assurance that my backups are clean and recovery is a security control I can stand behind.” CISO, Large Financial Services Enterprise
Security Leaders
Assurance that ransomware encryption won’t be missed, even when malware scanners say “all clear.”
Technology Leaders
Prevents data loss and downtime by detecting ransomware before it spreads across snapshots.
Boards & Risk Officers
Confidence that ransomware encryption is intercepted, not ignored, proving resilience.
The Difference Between AI Detection and Validation
- AI-Driven Detection = Capability – The intelligence that finds ransomware encryption.
- Continuous Validation = Process – How Elastio applies this detection across every backup, snapshot, and replica.
- Provable Recovery = Outcome – The result: last known clean points (R-RPO) that prove recovery is safe
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