In today’s rapidly evolving IT landscape, securing your hybrid cloud against ransomware attacks is more critical than ever. As enterprises distribute workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, the complexity of data protection increases—and so do the attack surfaces that cybercriminals target. Enter Druva, a fully managed SaaS backup and recovery platform designed to help you ransomware-proof your hybrid cloud deployments. Try Druva Free for 30 days Today and discover how effortless cyber resilience can be.

Understanding the Hybrid Cloud Challenge

A hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources with on-premises infrastructure, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost savings. Yet managing consistent backup policies, ensuring compliance, and recovering data quickly across Azure, AWS, and private data centers can become a logistical nightmare—especially when facing a sophisticated ransomware threat.

The Rising Ransomware Threat

Ransomware gangs have shifted tactics, targeting backup repositories and encrypting snapshots to hold organizations hostage. Traditional backup appliances are vulnerable: air-gapped copies can be bypassed, software patches lag, and recovery times stretch into weeks or months. In a hybrid cloud scenario, these risks multiply.

Why SaaS Backup Is the Smart Choice

With a SaaS-based approach, you eliminate hardware dependencies, streamline management, and leverage immutable, air-gapped backups in the public cloud. A modern SaaS backup solution secures data end-to-end—encrypting in transit and at rest—and enables rapid, granular recovery across all environments without costly egress charges.

Introducing Druva: Your Hybrid Cloud Protector

Druva is a cloud-native data protection platform built on AWS and Azure, delivering enterprise-grade backup, recovery, and governance—all via a fully managed SaaS model. There’s no hardware to deploy, no software to maintain, and no hidden fees. You pay only for the storage you use, and you can scale protection up or down on demand.

Core Capabilities of Druva

• Cisco, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace Backup: Secure SaaS app data with policy-driven backups and rapid restore.
• VMware & Hyper-V Protection: Agentless backup for virtual machines, with file-level recovery and cross-region restores.
• Endpoint Backup: Safeguard laptops and workstations with continuous snapshots and ransomware detection.
• API-Driven Cloud Backup: Natively protect AWS and Azure workloads with no egress charges and immutable snapshots.
• Cyber Resilience Assessment: A 5-level maturity model to identify blind spots and harden your defenses before an attack.

Benefits of SaaS Backup for Hybrid Cloud

• Rapid Recovery: Restore files, applications, or entire workloads in minutes instead of days.
• Immutable & Air-Gapped Backups: Prevent unauthorized modification or deletion of backup data.
• Scalability: Expand protection seamlessly across new workloads and regions, paying only for what you use.
• Cost Savings: Reduce total cost of ownership by up to 40% compared to legacy backup appliances.
• Centralized Management: Control all on-prem and cloud backups through one intuitive console.
• Compliance & Governance: Enforce retention and eDiscovery policies to meet regulatory requirements.

Assessing Your Cyber Resilience

Druva’s built-in maturity model guides you through five levels of cyber resilience, from basic backups to proactive risk monitoring. By assessing your current posture, you can prioritize remediation tasks—whether that’s tightening access controls, improving encryption, or automating recovery drills.

How Druva Accelerates Recovery

Traditional restores often involve shipping tapes or spinning up replacement hardware. With Druva, you simply select the snapshot you need and hit “restore.” The platform orchestrates the entire process—mounting disks, rehydrating VMs, or pushing files back to endpoints—so your teams can resume operations without missing a beat.

Comparing Druva to Legacy Solutions

Legacy backup systems require capital expenditure on servers, storage arrays, and tape libraries. They demand constant patching and maintenance, leaving gaps that attackers can exploit. Druva removes these hassles:

• No hardware procurement or lifecycle management
• No backup windows or capacity planning
• Built-in security features like end-to-end encryption, SIEM integration, and anomaly detection
• Transparent pricing with zero egress fees

Implementing SaaS Backup in Your Hybrid Cloud

1. Define Policies: Map backup SLAs to business objectives—how often to snapshot, how long to retain, and who can access restores.
2. Connect Workloads: Use Druva agents for endpoints and VMs, and leverage native APIs for cloud applications and infrastructure.
3. Validate Protect-and-Recover Workflows: Run automated fire drills to ensure you can recover quickly under ransomware attack scenarios.
4. Monitor & Optimize: Use Druva’s dashboards and proactive alerts to stay ahead of threats and storage inefficiencies.

Real-World Impact

Organizations migrating from legacy data centers to hybrid cloud environments report:

• 5x faster recovery times
• 40% reduction in backup costs
• Zero data loss in simulated ransomware drills
• Complete visibility across tens of thousands of endpoints and TBs of cloud data

Take Control of Your Hybrid Cloud Security

If you’re ready to ditch the legacy backup headaches and ransomware-proof your hybrid cloud, now’s the time to act. With Druva’s fully managed SaaS platform, you’ll simplify operations, slash costs, and achieve rock-solid cyber resilience.

Try Druva Free for 30 days Today and see how fast and effortless recovery can be.