HYCU, Inc., a leader for modern data protection for on-prem, cloud services, and SaaS, and one of the fastest growing companies in the industry, announced Resiliency Shield (R-ShieldTM), an industry-first cyber resilience fabric built-in to its award-winning, flagship HYCU Data Resiliency Cloud (R-CloudTM) data protection platform. With R-Shield, customers now have unparalleled anomaly and ransomware detection capabilities, along with instant recovery to address the risk unprotected data creates for organizations worldwide.
As much as 60% of data in use in companies today is unmanaged or left with little proper oversight and security measures to secure it. When coupled with the rise of both external threats due to malicious actors and ransomware and internal threats, organizations with multi-cloud deployments and distributed data face increasing risks that current legacy data protection solutions are unable to address. As much as 80% of attacks today are on fragmented cloud and SaaS applications. R-Shield is designed to protect and provide always-on detection and recovery capabilities for customers that need to combat cyber criminals who exploit fragmented IT environments with purpose-built attacks targeting VMs, data warehouses, finance applications, storage buckets, and git repositories as well as disruption from simple human error.
“Most organizations have data across multiple clouds today and they face a critical gap between traditional backup solutions and comprehensive cyber resilience,” said Enrique Salem, Partner, Bain Capital. “What we’ve observed is that protection limited to virtual machines or specific workloads leaves dangerous blind spots across an enterprise’s entire data estate. HYCU R-Shield represents exactly the kind of holistic approach that security leaders have been demanding – one that seamlessly integrates detection, protection, and recovery capabilities across all data sources. At Bain, we’ve consistently emphasized that true security requires this end-to-end perspective, and HYCU’s innovation delivers precisely that. R-Shield is poised to fundamentally transform how organizations approach cyber resilience by addressing the costly problem of unprotected data across multi-cloud environments.”
“What’s been missing from data protection solutions to date is comprehensive protection for the entire data estate,” said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO of HYCU. “Most solutions offer only limited liability protection focused narrowly on VMs, leaving critical parts of the data estate exposed and difficult to recover. At HYCU, we’ve always had advanced instant recovery capabilities that are patented, and we’re now applying this instant recovery technology for quicker detection to ensure cyber resilience is truly being met by enterprise backup and recovery solutions. With R-Shield, we’re providing organizations with the ability to protect and recover data that was previously challenging at a minimum or nearly impossible to secure.”
R-Shield is a new service available with the latest release of R-Cloud. A comprehensive cyber resilience solution architected and integrated in R-Cloud, R-Shield provides embedded security into every layer of the R-Cloud customer experience. R-Shield brings together advanced detection, fortified protection, and reliable recovery that is always on, always watching, and always ready.
HYCU R-Shield, Key Building Block to Comprehensive Cyber Resilience
With R-Shield, customers can ensure their application data is always protected, observed, and ready to recover as quickly as possible in the event of an unanticipated outage:
Always Protected ensures backups are invisible, impenetrable and available to all workloads:
- Hardened backup service. Built on a military-grade virtual appliance with DISA-STIG certification
- Make backup data invisible. Near-zero footprint with backup data cloaking and an isolated, independent network. No proxy servers, agents, or gateways, with ease of upgrades eliminates vulnerabilities.
- R-LockTM for Immutable Backups: Provides customer-owned, offsite, storage smart and cost-efficient immutable backups for on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and AI/ML workloads, enabling fast recovery from cloud-conscious attacks for data that was difficult to secure before.
Always observing helps to detect new applications, anomalies and threats without compromising data governance and control:
- Active, at Source Malware Detection: Scans near-production copies of virtual data using rule-based and anomaly-driven detection without touching backup storage, with real-time alerts sent directly to customer SIEM systems-all without requiring customers to give up control of their data.
- SaaS, App-Level and Service Discovery: Customers can instantly visualize as-a-service infrastructure and apps used by department and expose unprotected applications.
- Anomaly Detection: Continuously monitors for suspicious activities across protected data sources for hybrid and SaaS workloads.
Always Ready features help to recover from SaaS supply chain, cloud conscious, and ransomware attacks:
- Continuous Validation: Ensures backups are viable and ready for restoration, even for complex distributed data environments.
- Recovery Automation & Choice: Provides flexible, site-level or granular recovery to recover from large-scale supply chain attacks or specific data loss from insider threats.
- Offline Recovery: Ensures offsite, offline access to cloud and SaaS data -critical protection against supply-chain attacks that traditional solutions cannot address.
With HYCU R-Shield, customers can now protect and recover data that was previously difficult to secure, leveraging these capabilities across all their data sources that HYCU protects. This comprehensive solution significantly increases resilience while reducing costs and minimizing the attack window, without requiring the substantial investments typically associated with separate detection infrastructure.
For more information on HYCU R-Shield, visit HYCU R-Shield, or join Simon Taylor and Andy Fernandez on Tuesday, April 29 at 10:00 a.m. ET/4:00 p.m. CET for an unveiling webinar, “Full Stack Cyber Resilience for SaaS, Cloud and On-prem.”
