Understanding Elastio & AWS GuardDuty Malware Scanning for AWS Backup

AWS recently introduced GuardDuty malware scanning for AWS Backup, highlighting the growing importance of inspecting backup data as part of a modern cyber-resilience strategy. In this session, the Elastio product team will walk through how this new capability works, how it compares to Elastio’s ransomware recovery assurance, and where the two approaches differ in scope, depth, and intended use.

We'll cover:

• What AWS’s new malware scanning for AWS Backup actually does
• How signature-based malware detection compares to data integrity validation
• Real-world scenarios where behavioral and encryption-based detection matters
• How Elastio extends visibility, detection, and recovery assurance across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments
• An early look at Elastio’s new integration launching at AWS re:Invent