Ransomware Readiness: How to Build Cyber Resilience with Druva
In an age where data is currency and downtime can cost crores, ransomware attacks have emerged as one of the most dangerous threats to Indian enterprises. From healthcare to manufacturing, education to fintech, no sector is safe. And as organizations digitize operations and expand across cloud platforms, the attack surface only grows larger.
But here’s the good news: while ransomware threats are evolving, so are the tools to fight them. With Druva’s cloud-native data protection platform, organizations can not only survive ransomware attacks — they can recover from them faster, smarter, and stronger.
This blog explores how Indian businesses can build true cyber resilience using Druva, and why it’s time to think beyond traditional antivirus or firewall-based approaches.
🚨 The Growing Threat of Ransomware in India
According to several global cybersecurity reports, India ranks among the top five countries targeted by ransomware. Attackers are no longer just targeting large enterprises — SMBs, government offices, and even educational institutions are increasingly vulnerable.
Common ransomware risks:
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Encrypted or locked business data
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Disruption of services
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Demand for payment in crypto
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Public exposure of sensitive information
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Legal and compliance fallout
With many Indian companies now relying on hybrid cloud environments, SaaS apps like Microsoft 365, and remote endpoints, the risk is distributed and dynamic.
🔄 What is Cyber Resilience (and how is it Different from Cybersecurity)?
Cybersecurity is about preventing attacks. Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus — these are your front-line defenders.
Cyber resilience, however, is about recovering quickly and continuing operations after an attack. It’s the ability to bounce back, restore business functions, and protect your reputation — and that’s where Druva shines.
💡 Why Traditional Backup Isn’t Enough Anymore
Most legacy backup tools weren’t built to handle the sophisticated and evolving nature of ransomware. Here’s why they fall short:
- On-prem backups can be encrypted by attackers too
- Slow recovery times lead to long business outages
- Backups without anomaly detection allow infected data to be silently backed up
- No centralized visibility across endpoints, VMs, SaaS, and cloud
In other words, if your backup system can’t withstand a ransomware attack, it becomes a liability — not an asset.
✅ How Druva Enables Ransomware Readiness
As a 100% SaaS-based platform with no infrastructure dependency, Druva offers a powerful, multi-layered defense and recovery strategy against ransomware.
Immutable, Air-Gapped Backups : Druva’s cloud backups are read-only and cannot be altered, even by admins or attackers. This ensures a clean, untouchable copy of your data is always available.
Automated Anomaly Detection : Druva uses AI and machine learning to detect unusual behaviour — like sudden data encryption, file renaming, or unusual deletion patterns. IT teams are alerted in real-time.
Rapid Recovery and Granular Restore : In the event of an attack, you can quickly restore data at file-level, folder-level, or entire systems—often in just minutes. Recovery time objectives (RTOs) are drastically reduced.
Integrated Ransomware Workflows : Druva provides step-by-step recovery workflows for ransomware, including identifying the last clean snapshot, isolating infected systems, and restoring operations securely.
End-to-End Coverage : Whether you’re using Microsoft 365, AWS, VMware, endpoints, or NAS, Druva offers unified backup and recovery across your entire IT environment — with centralized visibility and control.
🛡️ Druva in Action: A Real-World Scenario
Let’s say your business in Gurgaon is running a hybrid environment — with key workloads on AWS, internal data on VMware, and daily operations happening through Microsoft 365.
One morning, you find that files across your finance team’s OneDrive accounts have been encrypted. You receive a ransom note. Your antivirus missed the breach, and employees are locked out.
With Druva, here’s what happens next:
- The anomaly detection system triggers alerts and pinpoints the timeframe of unusual activity.
- You access your last clean back up from 24 hours earlier via the Druva dashboard.
- Within minutes, your OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange data is restored to its clean state.
- You avoid paying the ransom, minimize downtime, and your business runs smoothly again.
Now compare that to days — or weeks — of lost time with traditional tools.
🔍 Aligning with India’s Data Compliance Landscape
With the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act in effect, Indian enterprises must also consider how their ransomware recovery and data protection strategy align with data privacy and compliance.
Druva helps with:
- Audit-ready logs and reports
- eDiscovery and legal hold
- Data localization and sovereignty features
- Secure backups that support DPDP compliance
For businesses operating across borders, Druva also supports GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other global standards.
🌐 Our Role: Your Cyber Resilience Partner
As an authorized Druva partner based in Delhi NCR, we help businesses across India and internationally to plan, deploy, and optimize their ransomware recovery strategy using Druva.
What we offer:
- Free assessments of your current data protection setup
- Customized deployment for your cloud/hybrid environment
- 24/7 support and ongoing monitoring
- Training for IT teams to ensure preparedness
✍️ Final Thoughts: Resilience is Not Optional Anymore
Ransomware attacks are not just an IT problem—they are a full-blown business risk. The ability to recover data quickly, without paying ransoms or suffering major losses, defines which businesses survive and thrive.
Druva offers the tools. We bring the expertise. Together, we can help your business become resilient by design.
Want to test your ransomware readiness?
📞 Contact us for a free consultation or a personalized Druva demo.
