Eon Launches Industry-First Ransomware Solution for Cloud Databases, Expanding Enterprise Data Protection Capabilities

Platform extends immutable, air-gapped protection to databases alongside VMs and object storage, delivering unified defense against $74B in annual ransomware threats

NEW YORK, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As enterprises abandon on-premise servers and modernize in the cloud, a massive security gap has opened in protecting databases, which are the 'brains' of the modern economy. Today, Eon, an intelligent data and AI infrastructure platform, closes that gap with the introduction of the first ransomware protection designed specifically for cloud databases. This addition to Eon’s existing ransomware protection suite enables organizations to fully detect and recover potential ransomware corruption or anomalous behavior and restore trusted data across all modern cloud workloads.

With ransomware damage costs projected to reach $74B in 2026, a 30% increase from 2025, enterprises face a pressing need for comprehensive cloud data protection, but more than half lack the components required for full recovery from ransomware attacks. Eon’s new protection capabilities address this need directly, becoming the first platform to provide unified ransomware protection across managed and self-hosted cloud databases, VMs, and object storage, eliminating the choice between paying attackers or enduring prolonged operational shutdowns.

“Legacy protection tools scan files and disks for ransomware, but as customers modernized, these solutions lagged behind, leaving databases exposed. Attackers today are exploiting this blind spot, and organizations often don’t discover corrupted data until they’re attempting recovery,” said Ofir Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Eon. “True resilience requires full visibility into your backups and a reliable path to full restoration. We've built our ransomware protection package to ensure your cloud data stays secure, uncorrupted, and ready to drive intelligence no matter what.”

Eon's cloud-native platform detects threats and validates recovery points without expanding the attack surface. By analyzing the contents of database backups, Eon automatically identifies trusted recovery points and enables fast restoration of clean data in minutes instead of days. Because backups remain indexed and queryable, security teams can investigate corrupted data and restore only trusted records without rebuilding entire environments.

Key benefits of Eon's ransomware protection for databases include:

• Greater Visibility: Detect ransomware signals, including database-level anomalies such as row-count drops, schema changes, and cardinality shifts across Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, RDS, and other cloud databases.
• Unified Protection Across Cloud Workloads: Detect and recover from ransomware attacks across VMs, object storage, and databases from a single console.
• Cloud-Native, Agentless Design: Direct integration with cloud provider APIs eliminates the need for appliances or infrastructure changes.
• Air-Gapped Security: Immutable, logically air-gapped vaults protect backups from deletion or modification, even when production systems are compromised.

Learn more about Eon’s approach to ransomware protection and data resilience at www.eon.io.

About Eon
Eon is a data and AI infrastructure platform, providing instant access to enterprises’ largest unused data sources to unlock their true potential and make them immediately useful for AI and analytics - at half the cost. Eon protects, automates, and converts complex and costly cloud backups and archives into a unified, queryable data lake, enabling fast and easy data recovery, simplifying compliance, and powering deep analytics. Founded by Ofir Ehrlich, Gonen Stein and Ron Kimchi, the team that built and led the AWS Disaster Recovery and Migration services, Eon is backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenoaks, BOND, Elad Gil and dozens of industry leaders. For more information and to learn more, please visit https://www.eon.io/.

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