Outcome

Do not migrate ransomware into the cloud.

When you migrate workloads to the cloud, your data is assumed clean. It might not be. Ransomware that has been staging undetected in your on-premises environment will travel with the data. Elastio hunts for threats in your data before, during, and after migration, so compromised data never poisons your cloud environment.

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The migration risk

Your cloud is only as clean as the data you bring into it.

Migration tools move data. They do not inspect it. Cloud security tools protect the cloud environment. They do not verify the integrity of what was migrated. The gap between the source environment and the target environment is where threats survive the transition.

Ransomware

Dormant ransomware travels with your data

Ransomware that has been staging in your on-premises environment for weeks or months will be copied into your cloud environment during migration. The threat moves with the data. Your cloud is compromised from day one.

Data integrity

Compromised backups become your cloud baseline

If your backup or replication data contains undetected threats, that compromised data becomes the foundation of your cloud recovery posture. You migrate the problem and build on top of it.

Coverage gap

Cloud-native security does not inspect migrated data

Cloud security tools protect the cloud environment: misconfigurations, identity, network. They do not inspect the content of the data you bring in. The data layer is assumed clean. That assumption is the risk.

How Elastio secures your migration

Verify data integrity at every stage.

Stage 01Pre-migration

Hunt your source data before you move it

Before migration begins, Elastio inspects your live data, replicated data, and backups in the source environment. Elastio Hunt identifies any ransomware, malware, encryption anomalies, or persistence mechanisms in the data that is about to move. You know, before migration, whether your data is clean.

Inspect all data surfaces in the source environment

Identify threats across six threat surfaces per asset

Map which data is clean and which requires remediation

Produce a pre-migration integrity report

Stage 02During migration

Verify integrity as data lands

As workloads arrive in the target cloud environment, Elastio inspects the migrated data to confirm integrity was maintained through the migration process. No gaps between source verification and target deployment.

Inspect data in the target environment as it arrives

Compare source and target integrity states

Flag any data that changed or was compromised during transit

Continuous monitoring during the migration window

Stage 03Post-migration

Continuous protection in the new environment

After migration completes, Elastio continues to hunt across your cloud data estate. The same verification that proved your data was clean at migration becomes your ongoing recovery assurance in the cloud.

Ongoing inspection of live data, replicated data, and backups

R-RPO measurement per asset in the cloud environment

Automated restore verification for cloud recovery points

Transition from migration security to continuous recovery assurance

Migration scenarios

Every migration path. One verification layer.

On-premises to AWS

Migrating VMware, Hyper-V, or physical workloads to EC2, EBS, and S3. Elastio inspects source data, verifies it as it lands in AWS, and connects to AWS Backup and native snapshots for ongoing protection.

Elastio on AWS

On-premises to Azure

Moving workloads to Azure VMs, managed disks, and Azure Blob. Elastio verifies data integrity across the migration and integrates with Azure-native backup for continuous recovery assurance.

Elastio on Azure

On-premises to IBM Cloud

Migrating to IBM Cloud VCF, IBM Cloud Object Storage, or IBM Power Virtual Server. Elastio inspects data pre-migration and provides ongoing integrity verification in the IBM Cloud environment.

Elastio on IBM Cloud

Cloud to cloud

Moving workloads between cloud providers or between regions within the same provider. Elastio verifies data integrity at both ends, ensuring threats do not move with the data.

Platform overview

Who this is for

Migration security is a shared responsibility.

CTOs and cloud architects

You own the migration plan. Migration security gives you provable data integrity at every stage, so you can sign off that the target environment is clean.

Platform overview

CISOs

You sign off on the security posture of the migrated environment. Migration security gives you the evidence that no threats traveled with the data.

For CISOs

Cloud infrastructure teams

You execute the migration. Elastio deploys alongside your migration tooling with no agents and no performance impact. It verifies what you move.

For cloud teams

Related reading

Cloud migration and data integrity: go deeper.

CISO brief

Why cloud-native architectures are not inherently safe from ransomware

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Technical guide

Ransomware resilience for cloud-first enterprises

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Technical guide

Protecting your data from S3-level ransomware attacks

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Threat intel

What happens when attackers encrypt your data off platform?

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CISO brief

The blind spot of zero trust

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External reference

AWS Cloud Migration Hub

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Prove your recovery

Migrating to the cloud? Prove your data is clean first.

See your data integrity posture before migration begins. No agents. No performance impact.

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