Building Confident Data Recovery with Recovery Intelligence

As enterprise IT environments evolve, backups are no longer the final line of defense — they're a crucial part of the cybersecurity strategy. With the rising sophistication of ransomware attacks and data breaches, organizations face growing challenges in ensuring their backups are not only available but also uncompromised and secure. Recovering from backups isn’t just about access anymore; it’s about ensuring data integrity, maintaining customer trust, and doing it all at the speed modern businesses demand.

Druva’s Recovery Intelligence directly integrates threat intelligence and security context into the recovery workflow. By surfacing real-time indicators like anomalies, encryption, malware presence, and antivirus scan results, it helps enterprise customers make fast, confident decisions during recovery.

In this blog, we’ll explore how Recovery Intelligence helps you assess restore points across your cloud backups and build a more secure, automated cyber recovery strategy — without adding operational overhead.

Why Recovery Context Matters

Traditional backup systems were designed to answer one question:

“Can I restore my data?”

Today, the question is more nuanced:

“Can I safely restore this data without reintroducing risk?”

Modern threats like ransomware, prolonged malware dwell time, and insider threats mean that restore points must be verified not just for availability, but also for security. Restoring a system from an infected backup risks reinfection, creating a cycle of recovery failures and wasted time. 

This is where Recovery Intelligence steps in. By utilizing advanced Recovery Intelligence, organizations can identify and isolate infected snapshots before they are restored, minimizing the risk of reinfection. With actionable insights, you can quickly pinpoint safe recovery points, reducing the time and complexity needed to return your systems to a clean, operational state. 

Recovery Intelligence streamlines the entire recovery process, enabling you to act with confidence even in the face of sophisticated threats. Whether dealing with ransomware or hidden malware, Recovery Intelligence ensures your restores are secure, clean, and efficient. As ransomware raises the stakes, this level of assurance isn’t just helpful — it’s essential. 

What is Druva Recovery Intelligence?

Recovery Intelligence is a capability within Druva's Data Security Cloud that provides real-time, recovery-focused visibility through the following existing cyber components:

1. Data Anomaly Detection (Ingest-Time)

Automatically detects deviations in backup behavior — such as unusually large changes or unexpected deletions — which could indicate compromise or tampering. Explore Druva’s Data Anomaly Detection here.

2. Encryption Status Check (Ingest-Time)

Scans for encrypted file patterns at ingest. Useful for spotting potential ransomware-affected backups early.

3. Threat Hunt Results (At-Rest Scan)

Performs deep scans on backed-up data to uncover known Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and latent threats using integrated threat intelligence feeds. Learn more about how to hunt threats with Druva.

4. Anti-Malware Scan During Recovery

Executes a pre-restore antivirus scan on the selected restore point. If malicious artifacts are detected, the user is alerted and can choose a safer restore point.

Each of these signals contributes to a comprehensive Recovery Posture — giving security and IT teams the confidence to proceed with recovery.

Restore Point Trends: Intelligence at Scale

Every restore point analyzed by Recovery Intelligence contributes to a larger body of intelligence. These trends help organizations answer questions like:

• How often are restore points flagged with IOCs from threat hunt scans?

• Are data anomalies becoming more frequent for a specific workload?
  

This visibility helps IT and security teams:

• Spot potential compromise windows

• Correlate anomaly spikes with known incidents or patching gaps

• Identify workloads at higher risk due to recurring recovery issues
  

File Analysis Insights: Hidden Signals in the Data

In addition to restore point health, file-level intelligence offers granular visibility into what’s being backed up and when red flags are raised. Trends include:

• Increase or decrease anomalous file behavior, such as bulk deletions or file modifications
  

• Rate of encrypted file detection, signaling possible ransomware campaigns
  

Together, these insights help compliance and IR teams understand not just what data was impacted — but when, how often, and what risk posture it carried over time.

How Recovery Intelligence Fits in a Cyber Recovery Workflow

Let’s walk through a sample recovery workflow using Recovery Intelligence:

1. An incident triggers a restore request.
   

2. Admins open the Druva console, where Recovery Intelligence automatically highlights the health of each restore point.
   

3. Anomaly scores, encryption flags, IOC hits, and AV scan results are clearly displayed.
   

4. The admin selects a known clean recovery point and proceeds with restore — with full awareness of the data’s risk profile.
   

This process ensures you’re restoring trusted data, while also generating logs and reports for compliance, incident response, or audit trails.

Benefits for Enterprise and Regulated Environments

Recovery Intelligence supports key operational and governance needs:

• Visibility – Know what’s in your backups before restoring them.

• Security – Prevent malware reintroduction into production systems.

• Speed – Reduce time spent analyzing and validating restore points manually.
  
  

And because it’s built into the SaaS-delivered Druva platform, there’s no additional infrastructure or agent deployment required.

Kickstart Your Recovery with Druva Insights

Recovery Intelligence is available to Druva customers using workload protection for VMware infrastructure. It’s automatically applied during backup and recovery operations, and can be integrated with your existing response workflows.

Conclusion

As threats become more sophisticated, secure recovery is the last — and most critical — line of defense. Recovery Intelligence helps customers make informed decisions, reduce risk, and accelerate recovery timelines. By combining backup, threat intel, and policy enforcement into a single SaaS workflow, Druva helps enterprises stay resilient and ready.

Secure your business with ease — discover Druva Cyber Response and Recovery now!