NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Critical infrastructure is getting crushed by ransomware, and traditional backup/DR tools can’t tell you whether your data is actually clean or recoverable, leaving operators guessing which backup to trust when lives, services, money, and public systems are on the line.

Elastio does what no other company can do; Elastio transforms how critical infrastructure prepares for and survives ransomware by putting continuous recovery validation at the core of resilience.

Key Achievements and Innovation

Deep File Inspection at scale: Elastio goes far deeper than metadata or anomaly alerts. It inspects real file content inside backups and snapshots across cloud, hybrid and on-prem. It detects ransomware encryption, corruption, and dormant malware before anyone attempts a restore and can quarantine corrupted data automatically, then point security teams to the last known clean within minutes.

Clean recovery points you can trust: Elastio pinpoints the most recent clean backup automatically. No guessing. No multi-hour manual validation. Incident response accelerates immediately.

Automated scanning triggered by real threats: Through ecosystem integrations with cloud (AWS, Azure, IBM), backup vendors, MSPs, and SEIM/SOAR, Elastio scans the relevant recovery data the moment suspicious activity is detected. It confirms whether your backups are safe to use, not just whether something looks wrong.

Unified protection across environments: Critical infrastructure runs everywhere. Data is everywhere. Elastio creates a single recovery data integrity layer, finally making ransomware-ready recovery possible at scale.

Verifiable recoverability for regulators and boards: Elastio provides hard evidence through real-time dashboards of recoverability aligned to NERC CIP, NIST, NYDFS 500.16, DORA, and other sector requirements. This allows the business, board, c-suite and users to see proven recovery in real-time.

Impact – Critical infrastructure organizations using Elastio have:
• Reduced recovery time from weeks or months to hours
• Lowered downtime by approx 90% across customers
• Strengthened compliance through real, auditable recovery validation driving a 10–25x ROI
• Gained confidence that recovery will work when everything else fails

Why It Matters
In critical infrastructure, data integrity is non-negotiable. Elastio shifts ransomware preparation from reactive to proactive by delivering the one thing operators need above all else: clean, recoverable data they can trust in a crisis wherever data lives.

Elastio is award-worthy because it closes the most dangerous gap in critical infrastructure cybersecurity: the gap between having backups and knowing they can save you.