How Elastio Helps

Elastio adds a critical layer to your ransomware resilience strategy: automated, expert validation of backup data.

It integrates natively with AWS Backup via Restore Test, scanning recovery points for:

• Ransomware
• Insider encryption
• Malware
• Data corruption

By proactively validating FSxN backups stored in AWS Backup, Elastio enables:

• Reduced risk and faster recovery
• A validated inventory of last-known-clean FSxN backups and snapshots
• Audit-ready compliance with mandates like DORA, NYDFS, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, ISO27001, and GDPR

The Challenge – Ransomware’s Threat to Backups

Executive Summary

Enterprises using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN) can now strengthen their ransomware defenses with recovery assurance across every stage of the data protection lifecycle.

Built by ransomware experts, Elastio is a data integrity platform that validates the recoverability of FSxN backups by scanning for ransomware, insider encryption, and data corruption. Whether data resides in a primary volume, a SnapMirror replica, or in AWS Backup, Elastio ensures your recovery points are provably clean and uncorrupted.

Why Ransomware Recovery Assurance Is Now Critical

Ransomware has evolved – it’s stealthy, persistent, and designed to evade traditional defenses. As a result, organizations are embracing Zero Trust principles across the full cyber stack, including recovery.

Regulations like DORA, NYDFS, HIPAA, and NIST now demand provable recovery readiness as part of baseline cyber hygiene.
The risk? Ransomware often corrupts data before backups are taken. Even immutable, air-gapped backups can be silently compromised. Trusting your backups is no longer enough.

A Zero Trust approach assumes nothing is safe – not even recovery points. Only by continuously validating backup integrity can organizations ensure recovery is clean, reliable, and in compliance.

Modern FSxN Architecture for Resilient Recovery

Three-Tiered Protection:

1. Primary Filer – Your active workload.
2. SnapMirror – A near-real-time read-only replica with a 5-minute RPO.
3. AWS Backup – A daily immutable backup of the secondary replica.

How Elastio Complements NetApp ARP

NetApp’s Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) monitors production environments for suspicious file activity and triggers snapshots when potential threats are detected. Elastio operates beyond the production path, performing in-depth ransomware and insider encryption detection, as well as malware scans, on backups and SnapMirror-replicated snapshots.   If ARP flags a potential threat, Elastio helps ensure your recovery point is clean, verifiable, and safe to restore.
Best Practices for FSxN + Elastio

• Use SnapMirror for replication and fast RPO (e.g., 5 minutes)
• Use AWS Backup for immutable retention
• Run Elastio hourly scans on Snap-Mirror replicas
• Run Elastio restore tests daily on AWS Backups
• Prove recoverability to auditors, risk managers, and cyber insurers with compliance reports

Conclusion

Ransomware is inevitable. Recovery failure isn’t – if you’re prepared. For FSxN customers, combining NetApp with AWS Backup and Elastio establishes a ransomware-aware recovery strategy that is both operationally ready and regulatorily aligned.

Your data is only protected if it can be recovered. Elastio makes sure of it.