BOSTON, MA, July 5, 2024—Elastio, a cybersecurity company, launched anti-ransomware for AWS workloads to combat sophisticated ransomware threats.

Elastio, the only agentless, cloud-native anti-ransomware platform, is extending its protection from backups to detect ransomware in live data before the backup occurs in response to customer demand. This capability ensures early ransomware detection and minimizes downtime and data loss post-attack.

Challenges in Ransomware Protection

Despite enterprises’ efforts to secure their networks, ransomware threats continue to bypass EDR/XDR, AV, and malware scanners due to human vulnerabilities (phishing, social engineering), zero-day exploits, misconfigurations, and increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques. As the rising number of ransomware attacks demonstrates, a business will inevitably be hit, making ransomware resilience a critical business need.

Elastio’s Solution: Assuring Quick and Clean Recoveries

Elastio assures clean recoveries from ransomware attacks with minimal downtime and data loss. Now, with Elastio’s anti-ransomware for AWS workloads, customers can continuously monitor their live data for ransomware encryption to identify threats even earlier in the attack cycle before sending it to backup.

“Elastio is essential to our security,” said Kuldeep Tomar, Head of Information Security at Games24x7. It monitors the integrity of our mission-critical data, alerting us to attacks in minutes. Plus, we verify the integrity of our data before backup, ensuring a clean copy in case of an attack.”

RansomwareIQ: The AI/ML Anti-Ransomware Engine

Powered by its unique AI/ML anti-ransomware engine, RansomwareIQ, detects threats missed by other solutions, identifying specific ransomware families down to individual files. Built by reverse-engineering over 2,300 ransomware families and over 10,000 variants, RansomwareIQ detects novel ransomware with 99.99% accuracy and fewer than 5 false positives per 25 million files. Elastio’s over-time analysis further enhances detection accuracy for sophisticated variants.

Inspections are performed offline on snapshots or against live file systems and object stores, minimizing the impact on production and ensuring Elastio cannot be unhooked and bypassed like other agent-based security solutions. Elastio covers a wide range of AWS services, including EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, ECS, and EKS, ensuring comprehensive protection across your most critical data. 

“Ransomware is a business pandemic,” said Najaf Husain, CEO of Elastio. “We are helping our customers achieve cyber resilience and assured recovery, maintaining business-critical operations, governing compliance standards, and protecting against downtime and data loss.”

Key benefits of Elastio’s anti-ransomware for AWS workloads are:

• Detects Sophisticated  Ransomware: Elastio’s adaptive ransomware detection identifies novel ransomware that is not yet publicly known with 99.99% accuracy.
• Proactive Incident Response: Elastio’s ransomware-expert incident response team proactively validates every finding to support your team’s remediation efforts.
• Actionable Insights: Detailed alerts about the nature and scope of the attack empower security teams with the necessary information to remediate and resolve the threat.
• Clean Recoveries: By verifying data before it is backed up, Elastio assures that you always have a verified clean recovery point from which to restore operations.
• Early Detection: Catch attacks before they spread deeper into your infrastructure, including replicas and backups, and become a material breach.

Strengthen Your Cybersecurity 

With the launch of its anti-ransomware solution for AWS workloads, Elastio detects sophisticated ransomware earlier in the attack cycle and before it is backed up. This assures businesses that their data is always clean, uncompromised, and recoverable, significantly reducing downtime and data loss after an attack.

As ransomware threats continue to evolve, Elastio’s solutions provide the critical tools needed to stay ahead of ransomware attackers, ensuring the safety and continuity of business operations. For more information, visit Elastio’s Product Page.

About Elastio: Elastio is the leading agentless cloud-native anti-ransomware platform dedicated to protecting businesses from the most sophisticated ransomware threats with innovative AI/ML-driven solutions.

Download the press release here.