Up to 60% of the data used in businesses today is either unmanaged or left with little oversight and inadequate security measures. Add to this the rise in both external threats, from malicious actors and ransomware, and internal threats, and organizations with multi-cloud deployments and distributed data face ever-increasing risks that current legacy data protection solutions are unable to address. Up to 80% of today's attacks occur in SaaS applications and fragmented cloud environments. R-Shield is designed to protect and provide always-on detection and recovery capabilities to customers who need to combat cybercriminals exploiting fragmented IT environments with purpose-built attacks targeting virtual machines, data warehouses, financial applications, storage buckets, and Git repositories, as well as outages caused by simple human error.
“Today, most organizations have data across multiple clouds and face a critical gap between traditional backup solutions and comprehensive cyber resilience,” said Enrique Salem, partner at Bain Capital. “What we’ve observed is that protection limited to specific virtual machines or workloads leaves dangerous blind spots across an organization’s entire data heritage. 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 always emphasized that true security requires this comprehensive 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 in multi-cloud environments.”.
“What was missing from data protection solutions until now was comprehensive protection of the entire data set,” says Simon Taylor, founder and CEO of HYCU. “Most solutions offer only limited liability protection focused narrowly on virtual machines, leaving critical parts of the data heritage exposed and difficult to recover. At HYCU, we have always had advanced, patented instant recovery capabilities, and now we are applying this instant recovery technology for faster detection to ensure that enterprise backup and recovery solutions truly deliver cyber resilience. With R-Shield, we are providing organizations with the ability to protect and recover data that was previously, at best, difficult or nearly impossible to secure.”.
R-Shield is a new service available with the latest version of R-Cloud. A comprehensive cyber resilience solution designed and integrated into R-Cloud, R-Shield provides built-in security at every layer of the R-Cloud customer experience. R-Shield combines advanced detection, enhanced protection, and reliable recovery that is always on, always vigilant, and always ready.
With R-Shield, customers can ensure that their application data is always protected, monitored, and ready to be recovered as quickly as possible in the event of an unforeseen disruption:
“Always Protected” ensures that backups are invisible, impenetrable, and available to all workloads:
Enhanced backup service. Built on a DISA-STIG certified military-grade virtual appliance.
Make backup data invisible. A virtually invisible footprint thanks to hiding backup data on an isolated and independent network. No proxy servers, agents, or gateways required, with easy updates that eliminate vulnerabilities
R-Lock™ for Immutable Backups: Provides customer-owned, external, storage-intelligent, and cost-effective immutable backups for on-premise, cloud, SaaS, and AI/ML workloads, enabling rapid recovery from cloud-aware attacks for previously difficult-to-protect data.
“Always Observing” helps detect new applications, anomalies, and threats without compromising data governance and control:
Active malware detection at source: Scans near-production copies of virtual data using rule-based and anomaly-based detection without touching backup storage, with real-time alerts sent directly to the customer's SIEM systems, all without requiring customers to relinquish control of their data.
Service Discovery, Application Tier and SaaS: Customers can instantly view the infrastructure as a service and the applications used, by department, and expose unprotected applications.
Anomaly detection: Continuously monitors for suspicious activity in protected data sources for hybrid and SaaS workloads.
The "Always Ready" features help recover the SaaS supply chain, cloud awareness, and ransomware attacks:
Continuous validation: Ensures backups are viable and ready for restoration, even for complex distributed data environments.
Recovery and choice automation: Provides flexible, site-level or granular recovery to recover from large-scale supply chain attacks or targeted insider threat data loss.
Offline recovery: Ensures offsite and offline access to cloud and SaaS data - critical protection against supply chain attacks that traditional solutions cannot address.
