Recovery Point Systems, which makes cyber resiliency and business continuity solutions, has announced a major enhancement to its Ransomware Recovery as a Service [RRaaS] solution with the addition of AI-powered Backup Validation. This new capability enables organizations to verify the integrity of their backup images before initiating recovery, providing a higher level of assurance that restoration will be clean, secure, and operational following a cyberattack. Data from the Gartner IT Resilience Survey for 2026 provides statistics from the survey.
Recovery Point’s data protection and disaster recovery services eliminate complexity and minimize downtime with flexible, cost-effective solutions for cyber resiliency, hybrid DRaaS, and business continuity. This new capability enables organizations to verify the integrity of their backup images before initiating recovery, providing a higher level of assurance that restoration will be clean, secure, and operational following a cyberattack. That’s important because as ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, recovery is no longer just a function of IT operations. It’s a cornerstone of business continuity, regulatory compliance, and cyber risk management.
According to the new Gartner IT Resilience Survey for 2026: Ransomware Recovery and Readiness, one of the most revealing findings from the survey is that 78% of organizations report having implemented, or are in the process of implementing, Isolated Recovery Environments (IREs). Notwithstanding this, However, 53% of those organizations lack immutable backups and/or golden images, which are key prerequisites for clean recovery.
“Even among organizations implementing IREs, nearly half may lack the fundamental building blocks necessary for effective isolated recovery,” stated the Gartner report
This raises critical questions for recovery planning. Are your backups immutable and ransomware-resistant? Can you deploy clean, pre-validated system images during recovery? Is your IRE truly operational, or is it just a segmented network?
In addition, while 68% of organizations report using backup software with automation features, only 35% have automated the rebuilding of business applications using tools like Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in place of manual processes. Another 36% are still in the implementation phase. This gap matters. The faster you can recover not just data, but full application stacks, the lower your risk of prolonged downtime and reinfection.
This raises several key questions. Can you automate provisioning of infrastructure and applications during recovery? Are repeatable recovery tasks still manual, or are they orchestrated end-to-end? Is your team prepared to recover at scale, with speed and assurance?
Gartner’s survey highlights that 47% of respondents cite a lack of budget and 45% cite a lack of people as top challenges in building effective IREs. This is especially problematic for organizations with longer recovery time objectives (RTOs), where resource limitations are more acute, which creates a vicious cycle of underinvestment and vulnerability. This raises the question of whether you ar confident that our current recovery capabilities will meet compliance expectations in a real-world event.
The report draws a direct correlation between business involvement in defining RTOs and the implementation of advanced recovery capabilities like IREs. Organizations that collaborate with business leadership on recovery planning RTOs are 7 percentage points more likely to have implemented an IRE compared to those where RTOs are defined solely by IT.
“When business leadership is engaged in defining recovery objectives, they are more likely to support the investment and effort required for robust isolation,”said the Gartner IT Resilience Survey for 2026. This reinforces a growing truth: recovery is no longer just IT’s problem; it’s instead a business resilience issue.
Recovery Point states that they have built their services specifically to address the gaps Gartner identified. As ransomware continues to grow in sophistication and frequency, organizations face an increasing risk that their backups may be infected, incomplete, or unusable when they are needed most. According to the 2023 Veeam Ransomware Trends Report, 93% of ransomware attacks now target backup infrastructure itself, and 75% of organizations have experienced failed backup recoveries following a cyberattack.
“Backups alone don’t guarantee resilience,” said Brett Moss, President of Recovery Point Systems. “What differentiates Recovery Point is our focus on orchestrated, validated recovery. Backup Validation features continual testing, assuring clients that they have valid recoverable backups in the case of an attack. The solution also identifies dormant malware that may evade frontline defenses such as production XDR and EDR tools. With Backup Validation, we’re giving clients the confidence that every backup is not only intact, but also clean and fully restorable.”
Recovery Point’s Backup Validation service is designed to close this cyber recovery gap by proactively scanning backup images in an isolated cleanroom environment for hidden threats before restoration is attempted. Unlike standard backup tools that confirm only whether data was saved, Backup Validation demonstrates whether backups are malware-free, bootable, and fully recoverable. Because this validation occurs continually, organizations gain ongoing proof of resilience rather than discovering issues for the first time during a crisis.
The managed service works in tandem with existing backup technologies and requires no rip-and-replace. It automatically restores backup images into a secure environment at Recovery Point’s data centers, where it performs system-level power-on testing, advanced malware scanning, and recoverability scoring. This provides organizations with quantifiable insights into the operational readiness of their backup data and supports regulatory and cyber insurance requirements with compliance-ready reporting. It includes heterogeneous DRaaS solutions including Mainframe, IBM Power (AIX, IBMi), x86 (Windows, and Linux).
“Brett is a proven executive with a strong track record of scaling go-to-market functions and accelerating growth across complex technology environments,” said Recovery Point Systems CEO Jack Dziak. “His leadership will be critical as we expand our reach and deepen client engagement.”
Backup Validation is now included in Recovery Point’s comprehensive RRaaS offering, which goes beyond backup to deliver complete cyber incident readiness and orchestrated recovery. It combines proactive planning, automated recovery workflows, and real-time visibility to ensure clients can resume business operations with speed and confidence.
Key Components of RRaaS include: Gap Assessment and DR Planning; Immutable, Air-Gapped Backups; Backup Scanning; Recovery Plan Testing and Validation; Hot Site Failover with Cleanroom Capabilities; Runbook Management and Reporting; Automated, Orchestrated Recovery; and a Real-time Recovery Dashboard (Resiliency Console)
This enhancement strengthens Recovery Point’s commitment to proactive cyber resilience, giving clients not just a way to recover, but assurance in the integrity of every recovery point.
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Moss added that he is “energized to work alongside this talented team to accelerate growth and build on the strong foundation already in place. Recovery Point sits at the intersection of resiliency, security, and trust—all of which are top priorities for today’s enterprises.”