IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report finds the cost to an organization from an attack or breach continues to escalate. Public cloud storage breaches can carry some of the highest average incident costs, while ransomware dwell time continues to increase. Enterprises can no longer afford to validate data integrity only after systems fail. Ransomware attacks no longer rely on noisy, high‑velocity encryption. Today’s attackers infiltrate quietly.
The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026 found active ransomware and extortion groups surged 49% year over year, with attackers increasingly using automation and AI to scale operations. At the same time, breaches involving stolen credentials are taking longer than ever to detect and contain.
With a single compromised credential, an attacker can gain write access to object storage buckets and encrypt data slowly over days or weeks. These small, incremental changes evade anomaly‑based detection and blend into normal activity. By the time alerts trigger, ransomware is already embedded in the data.
With IBM Cloud Object Storage and Elastio, organizations gain a capability not previously available natively within IBM Cloud Object Storage.
A provable answer to the question that defines every ransomware incident—what data is clean, and where recovery begins.
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