The recognition places ControlMonkey among the vendors defining how enterprises recover the cloud configuration required to operate – not just their data – after outages, ransomware, and unintended change.

ControlMonkey, the cyber resilience platform for Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery, has been named a Sample Vendor for Cloud Application Infrastructure Recovery (CAIRS) in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, 2026. Published on 28 July 2026 by Gartner analyst Michael Hoeck (ID G00846536), the report identifies Cloud Application Infrastructure Recovery as an emerging technology for recovering the configuration behind modern cloud applications and lists ControlMonkey alongside Arpio, Cohesity, and Commvault as Sample Vendors for the category.

In addition, Gartner rates Cloud Application Infrastructure Recovery a high-benefit emerging technology and predicts that by 2030, 35% of organizations will use cloud application infrastructure recovery solutions to complement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)-based disaster recovery orchestration – up from less than 5% in 2026. Gartner describes the category as expanding disaster recovery for cloud applications by identifying the infrastructure services, dependencies, data, and configurations required to rebuild and recover them.

The recovery gap CISOs can no longer ignore

The recognition puts a name to something security leaders have lived with but struggled to close: recovery plans that protect data and stop short of the configuration required to operate. Traditional backup restores data. It does not necessarily restore the identity, network, security, observability, and SaaS configuration that make that data usable. When an incident hits, files and databases can come back while applications stay unreachable, users stay locked out, and teams lose visibility exactly when they need it most. That gap sits quietly in most resilience programs until an incident forces it into view — and four pressures are now forcing it into view sooner.

Four pressures are making that gap urgent for the CISO:

1. Ransomware targets recovery, not just data. Modern attacks disrupt identity providers, access policies, networking, and security rules. Restoring data alone does not bring the business back if the configuration around it is deleted, corrupted, or maliciously changed.
2. Change now outpaces the people tracking it. Cloud and SaaS configuration shifts constantly across IaC, consoles, APIs, and AI-assisted workflows. As automation and AI agents gain permission to act across environments, the risk of unintended or unauthorized configuration change rises with it.
3. Recovery readiness has become a board-level question. Many organizations still cannot prove which configurations are protected, what changed, or how quickly critical systems can return. The question has moved from “Do we have backups?” to “What is our real RTO and RPO for configuration?”
4. Prevention can’t undo what an AI agent already did. AI agents now act with real permissions, altering configuration, identity, and infrastructure state faster than teams can investigate or contain. Guardrails can restrict those actions, but they don’t reverse an unintended or unauthorized change – the market problem behind Gartner’s new AI Agent Action Rollback technology, which recovery, not prevention, has to answer.

Closing the gap between data backup and business recovery with ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey makes critical cloud and SaaS configurations recoverable across cloud infrastructure, identity, network, observability, and third-party systems – the layer traditional data backup leaves exposed. The platform follows a simple workflow: discover, snapshot, recover, and review.
It starts read-only: ControlMonkey connects through native APIs to scan and review your cloud and SaaS configuration — across resources managed and unmanaged by IaC — with no production impact, and captures versioned snapshots as known-good recovery points. When configuration is deleted or changed, teams restore it to a previous known-good state, with dependency-aware recovery that reduces manual rebuilds during an incident. Cyber Resilience Governance then shows what is protected, what changed, what can be restored, and where recovery gaps remain — the evidence base for programs aligned with DORA, NIS2, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST CSF 2.0.

That coverage extends to the systems enterprises actually run on, including identity providers such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, OneLogin, Ping Identity, and JumpCloud, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and services including Cloudflare and Datadog. 

Validated in customer environments

The results are already showing up in production:

• Block – 80% less effort to recover its cloud infrastructure, and 100% of its multi-cloud infrastructure recoverable
• HoneyBook – 100% coverage of its critical cloud and SaaS configurations, including Cloudflare and Datadog
• Keyrock – 0% → 100% visibility into ClickOps and configuration drift
• Ubiq – 100% SOC 2 compliance acceptance rate

ControlMonkey has now backed up more than 5 million cloud and SaaS resources for enterprises, including Block, Comcast, Intel, and Veolia.

About ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey is the cyber resilience platform for Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery. The platform helps enterprises discover, back up, compare, and recover critical cloud and SaaS configurations across infrastructure, identity, network, observability, and third-party systems. By turning configuration into a recoverable asset, ControlMonkey helps security and cloud teams close disaster recovery gaps left by traditional data backup, understand what changed, and restore known-good states when incidents occur. Founded by Aharon Twizer and Ori Yemini, both previously of Spot.io, ControlMonkey is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with operations in New York.

Operational disruption is unavoidable. The objective of FCA operational resilience is therefore not to prevent every incident, but to ensure that UK financial firms can continue delivering their most important business services when disruption occurs.

not to prevent every incident, but to ensure that UK financial firms can continue delivering their most important business services when disruption occurs.

The Financial Conduct Authority’s rules require firms in scope to identify important business services, set limits on how much disruption those services can tolerate, map the resources behind them and test their ability to withstand severe but plausible scenarios.

Since the transition period ended on 31 March 2025, firms have been expected to demonstrate that they can remain within the impact tolerances established for each important business service – not simply that plans and backups exist.

TL;DR: FCA Operational Resilience

• FCA operational resilience rules require in-scope UK financial firms to identify the important business services whose disruption could cause intolerable harm to customers or markets.
• Firms must set an impact tolerance for each important business service, defining the maximum disruption that can occur before that harm becomes intolerable.
• Organisations must map the people, processes, technology, information, facilities and third parties behind each service, then test them against severe but plausible disruption scenarios.
• For cloud-dependent financial services, operational resilience should include the ability to recover critical identity, network, security, DNS, observability, SaaS and cloud infrastructure configurations—not only applications and data.
• ControlMonkey supports FCA operational resilience programmes by helping organisations discover, back up, compare and recover the cloud and SaaS configurations their important business services depend on.

What Is FCA Operational Resilience?

Operational resilience is the ability of a firm to prevent, respond to, recover from and learn from operational disruption.

The FCA framework focuses on the delivery of business services rather than the availability of individual systems. The objective is to ensure that disruption does not cause intolerable harm to consumers or threaten the integrity of the wider financial system.

This is an important distinction.

A firm can have working servers, available databases and successful backups while still being unable to deliver a service to its customers. An authentication failure, deleted DNS record, corrupted network route or unavailable third-party platform may be enough to prevent the service from operating.

Operational resilience therefore asks a broader question:

Can the organisation continue delivering the service, or restore it before the disruption causes intolerable harm?

Who Do the FCA Operational Resilience Rules Apply To?

FCA operational resilience is a UK financial-services requirement. It does not apply to every UK business or every FCA-authorised organisation.

The FCA lists firms in scope including:

• Banks and building societies
• PRA-designated investment firms
• Insurers
• Recognised Investment Exchanges
• Enhanced-scope Senior Managers and Certification Regime firms
• Certain payment and electronic-money institutions
• Consolidated tape providers
• Qualifying cryptoasset firms

The FCA rules and guidance came into force on 31 March 2022. The transition period ended on 31 March 2025, by which point firms were expected to have completed the mapping and testing necessary to remain within their impact tolerances.

Although the FCA framework is UK-specific, it reflects a broader international shift. Regulators increasingly expect financial organisations to demonstrate that critical services can withstand and recover from technology and cyber disruption—not merely maintain written continuity plans.

What Does the FCA Expect Firms to Do?

The FCA operational resilience framework can be understood as a continuous cycle:

1. Identify important business services.
2. Set an impact tolerance for each service.
3. Map the resources and dependencies supporting it.
4. Test the service against severe but plausible disruption.
5. Identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
6. Learn from incidents and continue improving.

The framework is not satisfied by completing these steps once. Important business services, tolerances and supporting resources should be reviewed at least annually and following material changes to the business or its operating environment.

The statement was published shortly after the transition period ended and captures the central purpose of the rules: preparation must translate into an ability to maintain services when a serious disruption actually occurs.

1. Identify Important Business Services

The FCA requires firms to identify the services whose disruption could cause intolerable harm to consumers or create risks for markets.

An important business service is considered from the perspective of the outcome delivered to an identifiable customer or market participant. It is not simply an internal department, application or technology platform.

Depending on the organisation, examples might include:

• Allowing customers to access their accounts
• Processing or receiving payments
• Executing financial transactions
• Processing insurance claims
• Providing customers with access to funds
• Supporting merchant payments
• Managing time-sensitive investment instructions

This service-led approach prevents operational resilience from becoming a list of individual systems marked “critical” without an understanding of the customer outcome they collectively support.

2. Set Impact Tolerances

For every important business service, the firm must set an impact tolerance.

An impact tolerance represents the maximum tolerable level of disruption to a service. It marks the point beyond which further disruption could cause intolerable harm to consumers, firms or markets.

Time will normally be an important measure, but it may not be sufficient on its own. Depending on the service, firms may also consider:

• The number of affected customers
• The nature of the affected transactions
• The value or volume of disrupted payments
• Financial loss
• Data integrity
• Market impact
• Customer vulnerability
• Reputational consequences

An impact tolerance is related to, but distinct from, a traditional recovery time objective.

An RTO typically measures the targeted time for recovering a system or technology component. An impact tolerance measures the maximum disruption the business service can sustain before the consequences become intolerable.

Technical recovery objectives may therefore need to sit comfortably inside the impact tolerance. The firm still needs time to validate recovered systems, reconnect dependencies, investigate failures and confirm that the service is usable by customers.

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3. Map the Resources Behind the Service

Once an important business service has been identified, the firm must understand what is required to deliver it.

The FCA expects mapping to consider the people, processes, technology, facilities, information and third parties supporting each important business service.

For a cloud-dependent service, this map may include:

• Applications and workloads
• Databases and customer data
• Identity providers and access policies
• Cloud accounts and subscriptions
• Virtual networks and subnets
• DNS and traffic-management records
• Routing tables and load balancers
• Security groups and firewall rules
• Encryption and key-management settings
• Observability, dashboards and alerts
• SaaS platforms and third-party services
• Internal teams and escalation processes
• Manual workarounds and recovery procedures

The mapping exercise should reveal more than which vendors are used. It should show how dependencies connect, which ones are necessary to deliver the service and what would happen if one or more became unavailable.

This is especially important in modern cloud environments, where service configuration is distributed across cloud providers, SaaS platforms, identity systems, networking products and observability tools.

4. Test Severe but Plausible Scenarios

The FCA expects firms to maintain testing plans that demonstrate how they can remain within impact tolerances during severe but plausible disruption.

The scenarios should vary in nature, severity and duration and should reflect the organisation’s actual risks and vulnerabilities. Testing should provide evidence for senior management and the governing body, helping them approve and fund remediation plans.

The FCA has also encouraged firms to mature beyond judgement-based or desktop exercises and incorporate more empirical testing, including:

• Disaster recovery and failover testing
• Simulations
• Penetration testing
• Lessons from real incidents
• Testing involving material third parties

For cloud-dependent financial services, severe but plausible scenarios could include:

• A privileged identity or authentication configuration is deleted.
• Network routes or firewall rules are maliciously altered.
• A critical DNS configuration becomes unavailable.
• A cloud account is compromised.
• An infrastructure deployment corrupts production settings.
• A third-party SaaS platform becomes unavailable.
• Security or observability configurations are lost during an incident.
• A ransomware attack disrupts both production and the recovery path.
• Several dependencies fail at the same time.
• An important environment must be reconstructed from a known-good state.

The purpose is not merely to demonstrate that a backup job completed. It is to determine whether the complete business service can remain available or be restored within tolerance.

5. Identify and Remediate Vulnerabilities

Mapping and testing will often uncover dependencies or recovery assumptions that were not previously visible.

For example, a scenario test may reveal that:

• A critical configuration is not backed up.
• A recovery process depends on one engineer’s knowledge.
• The current recovery point is too old.
• A third party cannot meet the firm’s tolerance.
• Dependencies must be restored in a specific order.
• Recovery instructions do not reflect the live environment.
• Infrastructure created outside approved automation is absent from the plan.
• Restoring data does not restore access, routing or security.
• A service cannot be fully validated before its impact tolerance is breached.

The FCA expects identified vulnerabilities to be prioritised, funded, governed and addressed. Closure should be supported by repeat testing that demonstrates the vulnerability has actually been resolved.

This makes operational resilience an evidence-based improvement programme, not a documentation exercise.

Why Data Backup Is Not Enough for Operational Resilience

Data protection remains essential. Financial services cannot operate without trustworthy customer, transaction and business data.

But restoring data does not automatically restore the environment required to use it.

A recovered database may still be inaccessible if identity policies have been deleted. An application may remain unreachable if DNS records or routing tables are missing. Security teams may lack visibility if dashboards, monitors and alert configurations have been corrupted.

The business service depends on both:

• The data and workloads being protected
• The configuration required to access, route, secure, monitor and operate them

Traditional backup restores data. Operational resilience also depends on restoring the configuration required to operate.

That configuration can exist across:

• AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
• Identity providers
• Network and security platforms
• Observability systems
• SaaS tools
• Version-control services
• Third-party operational platforms

Some of it may be represented in Infrastructure as Code. Other resources may have been created or modified through consoles, APIs, scripts, vendor interfaces or automation. An IaC repository alone may therefore not represent the complete state that existed before an incident.

Connect Impact Tolerances to Configuration Recovery

Impact tolerances are set at the level of the business service. Recovery, however, happens across the technology and third-party dependencies behind that service.

For cloud-based financial services, those dependencies may include identity policies, DNS records, network routes, firewall rules, load balancers, monitoring settings and SaaS configurations. If one of these cannot be restored, the service may remain unavailable even after its applications and data have been recovered.

This creates a practical question for resilience teams:

Can the configuration behind an important business service be restored within its impact tolerance?

Answering it requires more than confirming that backups exist. Firms need to know:

• Which configurations the service depends on
• Whether those configurations are protected
• Which previous state can be trusted
• How the configurations would be restored
• Whether recovery has been tested

The FCA does not prescribe a specific technology for this work. But its emphasis on mapping, testing and remaining within impact tolerances means firms need evidence that the full service—not only its data—can recover.

The Configuration Gap in Cloud Recovery

Most disaster recovery plans are built around applications, workloads and data.

That leaves a gap.

A payment platform may have a healthy database but remain inaccessible because its identity configuration was deleted. A customer portal may be restored but unreachable because its DNS or network policies were changed. A service may be running while security and operations teams have lost the dashboards and alerts needed to validate it.

These are not secondary technical details. They are part of the operating environment the business service depends on.

Traditional backup restores data. Operational resilience also requires the configuration needed to access, route, secure, monitor and operate that data.

What Good Configuration Recovery Looks Like

A resilient cloud recovery process should give teams four things:

Visibility into what exists	Teams need an accurate view of the cloud and SaaS configurations behind important business services, including resources created outside approved automation.
Known-good recovery points	Configuration states should be captured over time so teams can understand what changed and select a trusted point for recovery.
A tested recovery path	The organisation should know how individual configurations or wider environments would be restored, including dependencies and recovery order.
Evidence of recovery readiness	Resilience and security leaders should be able to see what is protected, what can be restored and where gaps remain.

This makes configuration recovery measurable. It also gives scenario testing something concrete to validate.

How ControlMonkey Supports FCA Operational Resilience

ControlMonkey is a Cyber Resilience Platform for Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery.

It helps organisations discover, back up, compare and recover critical configurations across cloud infrastructure, SaaS, identity, network and observability.

ControlMonkey continuously discovers configurations across the operating environment, including resources managed and unmanaged by Infrastructure as Code. It captures versioned snapshots that help teams understand what changed and identify a previous known-good state.

When an incident occurs, teams can recover individual resources, configurations or wider environments from those trusted recovery points. They can also review recovery coverage and identify configurations that remain exposed.

This can support several parts of an FCA operational resilience programme:

• Mapping the technology behind important business services
• Identifying cloud and SaaS recovery gaps
• Maintaining known-good configuration states
• Testing configuration recovery
• Providing evidence of recovery readiness

ControlMonkey does not make a firm FCA-compliant on its own. Operational resilience also includes governance, people, processes, communications, facilities and third-party management.

Its role is more specific: helping firms make the cloud and SaaS configuration behind important business services visible, testable and recoverable.frastructure in hours, moving from the two-month cohort toward the three-day one. Infrastructure configuration determines RTO. That is the whole argument in one sentence.

Picture the worst Monday of your career: the restore job finishes, every file comes back, and nothing runs. The servers, permissions, and network paths those files depend on are gone. To recover from a ransomware attack, you contain the breach, investigate it, rebuild a clean environment, restore data, validate, and monitor. This guide walks through each step, including the environment layer most recovery plans miss.

TL;DR

• Recovery is not finished when your files come back. It is finished when the business is back online.
• Data backup restores files. It does not restore the infrastructure configuration, IAM policies, and networking those files run on.
• The environment layer, not data restore speed, is what determines your RTO.
• Practitioners who lived through it report days to restore data and weeks to rebuild the environment around it.
• ControlMonkey turns a weeks-long rebuild into a controlled restore by continuously capturing a known-good state of your full environment.

Can a Company Recover from a Ransomware Attack?

Yes, most companies recover from a ransomware attack. The outcome hinges on preparation: clean backups, a tested recovery plan, and the ability to rebuild your environment, not just your data. Recovery is a when-and-how-fast question, not a whether question.

The “how fast” part is where businesses live or die. Every day of downtime burns revenue, customer trust, and contractual SLA commitments. A ransomware attack does not just encrypt data. It halts business operations until both the data and the systems around it come back.

Practitioners put the stakes more bluntly. Here is one r/sysadmin verdict on a company estimating two weeks just to restore email:

So what separates a three-day recovery from a three-week one? Rarely backup quality alone. The dividing line is whether a team can rebuild its full environment fast. That capability is what moves RTO, the number your executives actually track. Closing that gap is what the rest of this guide covers.

Why Data Backup Alone Isn’t Enough for Ransomware Recovery

Data backup supports ransomware recovery, but it was never the whole of it. Attackers know backups are your undo button, so they go after them first. Erase or encrypt the backups, and the ransom becomes the only exit. A hardened ransomware backup strategy built on immutable backups is table stakes. It still protects only one layer.

Now the part most recovery plans skip. Even with clean data, you have nowhere safe to put it. Restoring into a compromised environment restores the attacker’s foothold along with the files. 

Recover from a Ransomware Attack: What Needs to Come Back Online First

• Files and databases
• Infrastructure configuration (compute, storage, VPCs)
• IAM policies and permissions
• Network settings (DNS, firewall rules, routing)
• Third-party dependencies and integrations

A 24/7 medical practice hit by Akira through an out-of-support VPN learned the same lesson mid-incident. The data came back from MSP backups quickly. The locked-out Active Directory and network did not:

“We’ll rebuild from code” sounds like a plan until you audit it. IaC rarely captured the ClickOps changes, drift, or third-party wiring, so IaC is not a resilience strategy.

The flowchart below shows where a data-only restore leaves you, and the path that avoids the weeks-long detour:

This is the recovery gap ControlMonkey closes. Cyber resilience today stops at data; ControlMonkey handles your whole environment. It continuously captures your infrastructure configuration, IAM policies, and network settings as a known-good state. When something breaks, it restores that state on demand as part of an infrastructure disaster recovery capability. It complements your data backup rather than replacing it, whether your team runs Terraform, ClickOps, scripts, or a mix of everything.

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7 Steps to Recover from a Ransomware Attack

These seven steps to recover from a ransomware attack cover the full sequence, not just the data restore. Steps 1 through 3 contain the incident. Steps 4 through 7 rebuild the environment, restore data onto it, and prove the recovery holds.

Step 1: Isolate and contain the attack

Disconnect affected systems from the network immediately, and disable shared drives and VPN access. The CISA #StopRansomware Guide is the authoritative containment checklist; follow it. In the first 24 to 48 hours:

• Isolate infected systems; if several subnets look impacted, take the network offline at the switch level
• Take backups offline before the attacker reaches them
• Do not power off or wipe machines; volatile memory holds forensic evidence
• Coordinate over out-of-band channels like phone calls, not compromised email

Step 2: Preserve evidence and engage your response team

Photograph the ransom note, preserve logs, and capture forensic images before anything gets rebuilt. Notify your cyber insurance carrier, legal counsel, and incident response retainer on day one; their sign-off gates every later step. Practitioners consistently report that waiting on insurance and forensics approval, not technical work, caused their longest delays.

Step 3: Identify the attack vector before touching anything

Root cause comes before restore. If you do not know how the attackers got in, restoring systems restores their access too. The top-voted advice (317 upvotes) in one r/sysadmin post-mortem:

A 24/7 medical practice hit by Akira through an out-of-support VPN learned the same lesson mid-incident. The data came back from MSP backups quickly. The locked-out Active Directory and network did not:

The forensics findings, meaning the entry vector and the compromise window, are the artifact that clears your rebuild to start.

Step 4: Rebuild a clean environment from a known-good state

Stand up new infrastructure instead of cleaning the old: fresh VPCs, IAM policies, security groups, DNS, and third-party wiring. A clean environment rebuild cuts reinfection risk, and it is where recoveries stall for weeks when nobody captured the environment as code. ControlMonkey maintains a continuously updated known-good state of your infrastructure configuration, a time machine for your infrastructure. The rebuild becomes a restore instead of an archaeology project. Explore Infrastructure Disaster Recovery.

Step 5: Restore data onto the clean environment

Now the data restore pays off. Scan every backup for malware before restoring; ransomware dwell time means even recent copies may carry the infection. Restore in the priority order your cloud disaster recovery plan defines. A fintech would start with the checkout flow, not the marketing site.

Step 6: Validate everything before going live

Restored is not the same as operational. Run recovery testing against workloads, permissions, and integrations: can users log in, do scheduled jobs run, do third-party APIs still authenticate? Confirm the attack vector is closed, then get written IR sign-off before reconnecting to production and the internet.

Step 7: Monitor, harden, and retest

Watch closely for reinfection in the first weeks; footholds survive rushed rebuilds. Patch the entry vector and harden the platform, starting with AWS ransomware protection if you run on AWS. Then schedule recurring recovery tests so your next RTO is measured, not guessed. Drift detection keeps the known-good state current between tests.

How Long Does It Take to Recover from a Ransomware Attack?

Recovering from a ransomware attack typically takes days to several weeks. Well-prepared teams restore critical systems within days. Full recovery commonly runs into weeks, because environment rebuild, verification, and investigation holds consume most of the clock, not data restore speed.

The anatomy of that timeline surprises most teams. Data restore is the fast part, often hours to days. The weeks go to rebuilding infrastructure configuration, validating every system, and waiting on forensic and insurance holds.

The comparison below shows where the clock actually goes in each recovery model:

Two things compress the timeline. The first is a tested cloud disaster recovery strategy with RTO targets per tier. NIST’s Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery (SP 800-184) makes the same point: build and test the recovery playbook before the incident. The second is an environment you can recreate on demand. Teams with a captured known-good state restore infrastructure in hours, moving from the two-month cohort toward the three-day one. Infrastructure configuration determines RTO. That is the whole argument in one sentence.

Ransomware Recovery FAQ: What Practitioners Actually Ask

Are backups enough to recover from a ransomware attack?

Backups are not enough to recover from a ransomware attack. It restores your data, not the environment it runs on. Full recovery also requires rebuilding infrastructure configuration, IAM policies, network settings, and third-party integrations. Treat data backup as one layer of a wider disaster recovery plan, not the plan itself.

Is it safe to restore into the same environment after a ransomware attack?

Restoring into the same environment after a ransomware attack is not considered safe. Attackers often leave behind persistence mechanisms that survive a data restore, allowing them to regain access or re-encrypt systems. Best practice is to recover into a clean environment first, then restore trusted infrastructure configurations, identity services, and application data.

Do you need to rebuild Active Directory or IAM after ransomware?

Rebuilding Active Directory or IAM after a ransomware attack is often necessary because identity systems should be treated as compromised. Restoring trusted IAM policies, roles, permissions, and directory configurations from backup is significantly faster and more reliable than rebuilding them manually, helping organizations recover identity services more quickly.

What should you do first after a ransomware attack?

The first thing you should do after a ransomware attack is isolate affected systems to prevent the attack from spreading while preserving forensic evidence. Once the incident is contained, engage your incident response team, legal counsel, and cyber insurance provider before beginning recovery. Only after the environment is secured should you restore infrastructure, identity, and application data.

Closing the Ransomware Recovery Gap Before the Next Attack

Ransomware recovery is measured in business operations restored, not files restored. The environment layer- your infrastructure configuration, IAM, networking, and dependencies- is what determines how long that takes. You cannot schedule the attack. You can schedule the rehearsal and test whether your environment could be rebuilt today.

A continuously captured known-good state changes how you recover from a ransomware attack: the rebuild project becomes a restore operation. ControlMonkey keeps that state current, so your cyber resilience and business continuity cover the whole environment instead of stopping at the data.

A regional Okta outage and an accidental admin deletion look identical from the outside: nobody can log in, and the business stops. Yet only one of them is what Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery is built to fix. Identity is the perimeter now, so an Okta event of either kind halts every downstream app at once. Here is the central claim this guide makes plainly: Enhanced DR protects Okta’s service availability, but it does not back up your configuration. Below, you will see what it protects, what it misses, what a complete plan requires, and how to close the remaining gap.

TL;DR

• Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery is a real Okta add-on that cuts Okta’s failover RTO from about an hour to roughly five minutes during a regional Okta outage. It adds self-service failover and read-only authentication continuity, with full read-write typically back within about 24 hours.
• It protects Okta’s service availability during Okta-side outages. It does not back up your tenant configuration and offers no point-in-time restore of your own Okta setup.
• The config most likely to be lost – SSO settings, MFA policies, user groups, roles, app assignments, and Group Push group/membership mappings – is exactly what Enhanced DR does not cover.
• ControlMonkey complements Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery with continuous configuration backup and point-in-time recovery for complete disaster recovery readiness.

What Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery Actually Protects

Start with what the feature genuinely does, because it does it well. Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery is a paid add-on layered on top of Okta’s built-in Standard Disaster Recovery. Standard DR gives every Okta customer roughly a one-hour Recovery Time Objective (RTO) across two regions. Enhanced DR upgrades that path, cutting the RTO to about five minutes during a regional event.

The target is a specific failure: a Regional Outage in the AWS infrastructure running core Okta products. According to Okta’s documentation, these are AWS infrastructure, storage, or networking issues. Symptoms are unmistakable – elevated authentication failure rates, degraded latency, and HTTP 500 errors as the login path buckles.

Recovery centers on Self-Service Failover. Admins can trigger failover and failback through the Okta Disaster Recovery Admin app or the disaster recovery APIs. Okta can also fail over proactively when it detects a cell-level problem, and a support-assisted path exists for P1 cases. If you initiate failover yourself, you own the failback once the disaster clears. One operational detail matters here. The Disaster Recovery Admin app does not authenticate through external IdPs. Your admins need locally-sourced Okta credentials plus a supported MFA factor already in place before an incident. Plan that access ahead of time, not during the outage.

During failover, your Okta org runs in a specific mode. It becomes read-only, but users keep Authentication Continuity – they can still sign in to their apps regardless of prior authentication state or device. That Read-Only Access covers the admin console and configuration. Okta’s stated window for restoring full Read-Write Access to core services – configuration, settings, adding or removing users, changing permissions – is up to 24 hours during a regional failover, the same core-services restoration that applies under Standard DR.

Availability now spans real geography. Okta states Enhanced DR is Generally Available across commercial production cells in the US, EMEA, and Australia, with cells in Ireland, Frankfurt, and Sydney. Treat every figure here as Okta’s stated behavior rather than a contractual guarantee.

	Standard DR	Enhanced DR
RTO	~1 hour	~5 minutes
Failover trigger	Okta-managed	Self-service, proactive, or support-assisted
During failover	Read-only, users authenticate	Read-only, authentication continuity
Full read-write	Up to ~24 hours	Up to ~24 hours

What Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery Does Not Cover

Now draw the line, because this is the distinction the whole guide turns on. Enhanced DR remediates Okta-side regional infrastructure outages. It does not protect against events that originate inside your own tenant.

Okta’s own documentation is refreshingly direct about the boundary. Enhanced DR does not provide protection against request floods, including DoS or DDoS attacks. It does not cover issues with ISV vendors and application connections, nor code-related issues affecting Okta services. Critically, it does not protect against bad actors deleting or modifying data, or unintended configuration mistakes made by customer admins.

Here is the crisp version for an executive: Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery is not Okta Configuration backup. There is no Point-in-Time Recovery of your tenant. If an admin deletes a group or a bad change ships to production, failover will not bring the old state back – that event was never in scope.

This is why the two failure modes matter. To your end users, a config-loss incident and a regional outage are indistinguishable: authentication breaks and work stops. Enhanced DR addresses only one of them. Data recovery is not business recovery, and you cannot recover what you do not understand.

The at-risk configuration is not trivial: SSO Settings, MFA Policies, User Groups, Roles and Permissions, application assignments, and Group Push mappings all sit outside the availability layer. This is the customer’s own responsibility, and it maps directly to the broader problem of identity provider disaster recovery across any IdP you run. The next section details each component; first, take stock of where you stand.

Know Your Identity Recovery Gaps Before They Become Outages

Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery keeps the service available, but it doesn’t protect your configuration. Get a Free Cloud Resilience Assessment Report to identify recovery gaps across your identity, cloud, and SaaS environments – and see how quickly you could restore after an incident.

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What an Okta Disaster Recovery Plan Includes

A complete Okta Disaster Recovery plan has to cover two different failure modes: Okta service availability and Okta tenant configuration recovery. Okta’s native Standard and Enhanced Disaster Recovery help with regional service continuity. They do not restore a deleted policy, broken app assignment, changed admin role, or lost Group Push mapping. Use the checklist below to cover both sides of the plan.

Step 1: Cover service availability with Okta’s DR layer

Keep Okta’s native DR in the plan. Okta provides Standard Disaster Recovery for all customers across two regions. Enhanced Disaster Recovery is the option for organizations with stricter uptime requirements, reducing service failover RTO from about one hour to about five minutes.

For self-service Enhanced DR, authorized admins can initiate failover and failback through the Okta Disaster Recovery Admin app or API. During failover, users can continue accessing apps, while admins have read-only access to the Admin Console and users cannot reset passwords. This protects Okta service availability during a regional event. It does not roll back tenant misconfiguration, so it should sit inside your wider cloud disaster recovery plan rather than being treated as the whole strategy.

Step 2: Inventory the configuration you cannot afford to lose

Catalog the Okta configuration that determines who can authenticate, which policies apply, and which apps users can reach: SSO settings, MFA and authenticator policies, sign-on policies, groups and memberships, roles and permissions, application assignments, provisioning settings, and Group Push or Group Linking mappings.

Okta Group Push sends Okta-sourced groups and memberships to provisioning-enabled downstream apps. Group Linking, sometimes surfaced in searches as “Okta enhanced group push,” covers pushing Okta-managed membership into existing groups in supported apps. These mappings deserve their own inventory line because a lost or changed mapping can silently break downstream access.

Step 3: Back up that configuration continuously, with point-in-time restore

Inventory alone changes nothing. A plan needs versioned Configuration Backup with Daily Snapshots and Point-in-Time Recovery, so any object – a deleted group, a reverted MFA rule – restores to a known-good state. Continuous Okta backup and recovery covers groups, roles, and Group Push mappings that manual methods miss. Do not treat Okta’s System Log, read-only mode, or soft-delete behavior as a configuration backup. They help with investigation and continuity, but they do not restore complex policy state or the cross-object dependencies that hold the tenant together.

Step 4: Test recovery and track drift

Untested DR is still an assumption. Define both service RTO and configuration RTO, then add configuration RPO: how much Okta configuration change the business can afford to lose. Run recovery validation drills against a sandbox or controlled production test object, and measure how long it takes to identify, approve, and restore a broken policy, group, or app assignment.

Run drift detection continuously so accidental or unauthorized changes are caught before they become incidents. A measured restore in minutes is more valuable than a diagram of intended behavior.

Closing the Okta Configuration Recovery Gap with ControlMonkey

Okta Disaster Recovery keeps the identity service available during regional outages. ControlMonkey closes the configuration recovery gap by backing up, detecting drift in, and restoring the tenant configuration that controls access. Together, they give teams service continuity, configuration rollback, and evidence-backed recovery.

The gap is now clear: Okta keeps the service available, but your tenant configuration remains your job. ControlMonkey complements Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery by making that configuration recoverable. Okta owns uptime; ControlMonkey owns your ability to get a known-good config back. It plugs in as an identity resilience and recovery platform alongside the availability layer, never as a substitute for it.

For Okta specifically, ControlMonkey continuously backs up Okta Configuration – SSO Settings, MFA Policies, User Groups, Roles and Permissions, application assignments, and Group Push group and membership mappings. It captures Daily Snapshots, provides Point-in-Time Recovery, performs Drift Detection, and runs Recovery Validation. Every one of those objects becomes restorable to a specific moment, which is what versioned Okta backup and governance with ControlMonkey delivers.

Consider the failure that Enhanced DR correctly ignores. An admin deletes a critical group, or a bad MFA Policies change ships on a Friday. There is no regional outage, so failover never fires. The diagram below contrasts the two recovery paths.

The real differentiator is scope. Identity-only tools stop at the IdP; ControlMonkey recovers the entire cloud environment. It is IaC-native and spans 30+ SaaS platforms, so identity recovery is not a silo – it is one part of whole-environment recovery. When Ransomware or a bad deploy hits several systems at once, you restore them together, not one console at a time. That matters because a real incident rarely respects tool boundaries: a compromised admin account can touch your IdP, your cloud accounts, and your connected SaaS in the same afternoon. Recovering the identity layer while the surrounding infrastructure stays broken still leaves you down.

Tie it back to the metric that matters. This is about RTO and genuine Business Continuity. Data recovery is not business recovery; recovering the whole environment to a known-good state, fast, is what keeps the business running. ControlMonkey improves that number by removing the manual rebuild from the critical path.

Building Identity Recovery That Survives a Bad Day

Two takeaways carry this guide. First, Okta Enhanced Disaster Recovery is real and effective for Okta-side outages, cutting the failover RTO from about an hour to roughly five minutes. Second, it does not back up your configuration or offer point-in-time restore – that is a separate, customer-owned job.

A complete plan resolves the tension. Layer Okta’s availability with continuous configuration backup, drift tracking, and tested recovery, and both failure modes are covered. Okta’s Enhanced DR handles the outage; configuration backup handles the deletion, the misconfiguration, and the ransomware event. RTO is what executives track, so recover the whole environment, not just uptime.

Are you looking for the best ransomware protection solutions in 2026 to contain attacks fast and actually recover the systems your business depends on, not just your files?

In this article, I’ll cover the 10 best ransomware protection solutions on the market, from endpoint defense and immutable backup to the cloud configuration layer most recovery plans quietly skip.

TL;DR

• ControlMonkey is the best ransomware protection solution for the infrastructure configuration layer, as it continuously backs up and instantly restores cloud configs (VPCs, IAM, security groups, DNS, and GitHub settings) as deployable Terraform code.
• For stopping and detecting ransomware in real-time, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Microsoft Defender for Business, Trellix XDR, Varonis, and Arctic Wolf Aurora are strong picks.
• For immutable backup and clean-state data recovery, Rubrik Security Cloud, Cohesity, and Acronis Cyber Protect are all excellent options. But each one restores data, not the configuration that data depends on.

What are the 10 best ransomware protection solutions in 2026?

The best ransomware protection solutions in 2026 are ControlMonkey for the cloud configuration layer, CrowdStrike Falcon for endpoint prevention, and Rubrik Security Cloud for immutable backup.

Here’s a breakdown of our shortlisted platforms:

Tool	Features	Pricing
#1: ControlMonkey	Daily Terraform-based backups of cloud and Git configuration, one-click Time Machine recovery, drift and blast-radius detection, and real-time DR readiness dashboards.	Free Resilience Assessment. Pro and Enterprise are custom.
#2: CrowdStrike Falcon	AI and threat-intel ransomware prevention, OverWatch managed threat hunting, and real-time endpoint detection and response.	Falcon Go from $59.99/device/year. 15-day free trial.
#3: SentinelOne Singularity	Behavioral AI prevention, patented 1-click rollback, Purple AI threat hunting, and autonomous response.	Singularity Core from $69.99/endpoint/year.
#4: Rubrik Security Cloud	Immutable backups, anomaly detection, ransomware impact analysis, and clean-state recovery through SIEM and SOAR APIs.	Custom pricing.
#5: Microsoft Defender for Business	AI-powered EDR with automatic attack disruption, vulnerability management, attack surface reduction, and Microsoft 365-native management.	$3.00/user/month standalone, or included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium ($22/user/month).
#6: Cohesity	Instant mass recovery at scale, immutable snapshots with quorum approval, AI anomaly detection, and RecoveryAgent orchestration.	Custom pricing. 30-day free trial.
#7: Acronis Cyber Protect	Active Protection ransomware detection, unified backup and anti-malware, backup self-defense, and automatic file restore.	From €70.99/year per device.
#8: Trellix XDR	Full ransomware kill-chain coverage, open XDR with over 1,000 integrations, AI-guided investigation, and broad threat intelligence.	Custom pricing.
#9: Varonis	Data-centric UEBA, identity threat detection and response, a 30-minute MDDR response SLA, and automated remediation.	Custom pricing. Free data risk assessment.
#10: Arctic Wolf Aurora	Agentic SOC with over 300 specialized agents, managed endpoint security, a 99% true-positive rate, and expert-led triage.	Custom pricing.

The data is not the hard part of ransomware recovery.

The hard part is rebuilding the identity and networking configuration around it. ControlMonkey captures all of that as Terraform code and restores it in minutes, so a wiped DNS zone or a rewritten IAM policy is a rollback, not a week of work.

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Ransomware Protection Solution #1: ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey offers the best ransomware protection for the infrastructure configuration layer, as our solution continuously backs up your cloud and Git-based configurations as deployable Terraform code, then restores them in minutes.

While most vendors stop endpoint execution or restore data, ransomware increasingly targets the configuration of everything else that depends on: IAM policies, security groups, VPCs, DNS, branch protection rules, and CI/CD workflows.

Recent outages and account-takeover incidents across the major cloud and SaaS providers have turned configuration recovery from a theoretical gap into a measured one in enterprise resilience plans.

Teams usually discover this the hard way. The backups restored every byte, but the environment around them was still broken.

Here’s how cloud configuration recovery works after a ransomware attack with ControlMonkey:

Let’s go over our ransomware recovery features to see why companies like Intel, AWS, Comcast, and Block can’t imagine their cloud without ControlMonkey:

Automated Configuration Backup & Recovery

A leaked key in the wrong hands can strip your security groups and rewrite a handful of IAM policies overnight.

Your data is fine. Your operations are not.

Our platform continuously scans your cloud accounts and captures the full configuration layer as Terraform code, committed to your own Git repository as versioned records.

Coverage extends to resources created by hand in the console, which is the usual source of undocumented changes that derail recovery.

Snapshot frequency can run from hourly to daily, depending on how fast your environment moves.

Every snapshot becomes a known-good baseline you can diff against, so when something looks wrong, you can see exactly what moved and what the working version looked like.

Instant Configuration Disaster Recovery (Time Machine)

Time Machine is how we turn recovery from a rebuild into a redeploy.

As every backed-up configuration already exists as deployable code in your version control, restoring means selecting a known-good state and pushing it back out.

You browse configuration history without touching anything, then pick the last clean point before the attack and restore.

ControlMonkey handles dependency sequencing for you, so networks come back before the resources attached to them, and the environment returns in the right order.

If a ransomware operator wipes a production DNS zone and three weeks of security-group changes in one night, that’s a rollback for us, not a reconstruction project.

Drift Detection & Blast-Radius Visibility

ControlMonkey continuously compares your live environment against its desired state and surfaces unusual or unauthorized changes over time.

That anomaly view helps teams spot suspicious activity and unsafe drift before recovery even begins.

You can see the blast radius of a change, which can be the difference between a contained fix and a multi-day investigation.

How does ControlMonkey complement ransomware protection tools?

We’re not trying to replace your EDR or your data backup platform.

EDR tools protect endpoints, and data backup tools protect files and databases. ControlMonkey protects the configuration layer that recovery depends on.

Our platform connects with read-only access and native cloud APIs across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

It also covers the SaaS systems that hold critical configuration, from Okta identity policies to Cloudflare DNS zones.

Initial discovery takes between 30 minutes and half a day, depending on your cloud’s size.

From there, you get continuous visibility into what’s managed by IaC, what isn’t, what’s covered by a backup policy, and what actually backed up successfully last night.

You shouldn't be rebuilding your cloud from memory the morning after an attack.

Data recovery isn’t enough. ControlMonkey restores your cloud and identity configurations to a known-good state, helping you recover operations faster after a ransomware attack.

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Pricing

ControlMonkey offers three plans:

• Free Resilience Assessment ($0): For teams that want to understand their ransomware recovery risk before buying. It includes cloud and SaaS configuration discovery, a resilience score, recovery gap insights, and drift detection in detection-only mode, plus a review of the findings with our team.
• Pro (custom): For mature platform teams operating at scale. It covers up to 50,000 cloud assets and 50,000 protected resources, and adds snapshot change tracking over time, full drift detection with remediation, the ClickOps scanner, and RBAC, backed by specialized support.
• Enterprise (custom): For complex, large-scale environments, with custom cloud asset and protected-resource scopes and the same specialized support.

Replication to a secondary region or account and a self-hosted agent option are available on paid plans.

Pros & Cons

✅ Recovers your cloud and Git config as deployable Terraform code.

✅ One-click rollback to a known-good state, with dependencies sequenced automatically.

✅ Catches account takeover and risky changes.

✅ Continuous drift and blast-radius visibility.

✅ Free Resilience Assessment, so you can see your exposure before paying anything.

❌ ControlMonkey covers configuration, not endpoints or data, so it’s one layer of a ransomware stack and works alongside your EDR and backup tools.

Ransomware Protection Solution #2: CrowdStrike Falcon

CrowdStrike Falcon is a cloud-native endpoint protection platform that pairs on-device AI with human-led threat hunting to block ransomware.

It fits teams that want prevention and response in a single lightweight agent.

CrowdStrike Falcon Features

• OverWatch managed threat hunting: Human threat hunters work around the clock to find and shut down ransomware operators before they detonate, adding a layer that pure automation misses.
• AI and threat-intel prevention: On-device AI and a large intelligence network block known and unknown ransomware. Falcon posted 100% ransomware protection with zero false positives in SE Labs testing for four years running.
• Real-time endpoint detection and response: Continuous monitoring maps adversary activity into a process graph, so analysts can see how an attack moved across hosts.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pricing

Falcon Go starts at $59.99 per device per year and is capped at 100 devices.

Falcon Pro runs $99.99 per device per year and Falcon Enterprise runs $184.99 per device per year, both billed annually, while Falcon Complete managed detection and response is quote-based.

A 15-day free trial is available.

CrowdStrike Falcon Pros & Cons

✅ Independently proven prevention, with four straight years of 100% ransomware protection in SE Labs.

✅ Human-led OverWatch hunting on top of the automation.

✅ Lightweight agent, fast rollout. Intel reportedly swapped its old tooling out in three weeks.

❌ Per-device pricing can climb fast across large fleets, and Falcon Go tops out at 100 devices.

❌ It defends endpoints, so a wiped IAM policy or a deleted DNS zone is out of its scope.

Ransomware Protection Solution #3: SentinelOne Singularity

SentinelOne built Singularity around autonomous, behavioral AI for endpoints and cloud workloads.

It targets teams that want near-instant prevention and as little manual response as possible.

SentinelOne Singularity Features

• Patented 1-click rollback: Singularity can revert an infected machine to its pre-attack state in one action, turning an encryption event into a quick reset.
• Purple AI threat hunting: An AI security analyst answers natural-language questions and writes its own event summaries, so investigations move faster without a room full of senior analysts.
• On-device behavioral AI: Static and behavioral models flag ransomware and zero days in real time on workstations, servers, and cloud workloads, and keep working when a host is offline..

SentinelOne Singularity Pricing

Singularity Core starts at $69.99 per endpoint per year.

Singularity Complete is listed at $179.99 per endpoint per year and Commercial at $229.99 per endpoint per year, with Enterprise quoted by sales.

Pricing is shown for 5 to 100 workstations and is finalized through an authorized partner.

SentinelOne Singularity Pros & Cons

✅ Patented 1-click rollback is one of the cleaner endpoint recovery stories around.

✅ Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for endpoint protection, six years running.

✅ 100% detection across operating systems in MITRE ATT&CK testing.

❌ One area that could be improved with SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint is the overall usability and responsiveness of the management console, according to a G2 review.

❌ Rollback restores endpoints, not the cloud control plane, so VPCs and security groups stay out of scope.

Ransomware Protection Solution #4: Rubrik Security Cloud

Rubrik Security Cloud treats backups as the thing ransomware can’t touch, building them so they can’t be encrypted or deleted.

The platform suits organizations that want a clean-state restore.

Rubrik Security Cloud Features

• Immutable-by-design backups: Rubrik’s storage is immutable at the file-system level, so an attack can’t modify or wipe your recovery points, backed by a zero-trust cluster design and retention lock.
• Ransomware Investigation: Machine learning watches for unusual behavior across systems and storage to catch an infection early, without leaning on production resources.
• Scope-of-damage diagnosis: After an attack, Rubrik shows which data was encrypted and which sensitive records, like PII or PHI, may have been exposed.

Rubrik Security Cloud Pricing

Rubrik keeps its pricing off the website, so you’ll have to contact their team to get a quote.

Rubrik Security Cloud Pros & Cons

✅ Immutable backups by design are a strong defense for the data layer.

✅ Clear post-incident reporting on what was hit and what was exposed.

✅ Restores to the most recent clean state, with SIEM and SOAR API hooks.

❌ No public pricing.

❌ It brings the data back clean, but not the IAM and DNS configuration that the data depends on.

Ransomware Protection Solution #5: Microsoft Defender for Business

Microsoft Defender for Business brings enterprise-grade EDR to organizations under 300 users. It’s the SMB option for teams that need serious endpoint protection.

Microsoft Defender for Business Features

• Automatic attack disruption: AI-powered EDR can isolate infected machines and the accounts behind them in real time, stopping an in-progress ransomware attack from spreading. That’s a lot of capability at this price.
• Wizard-based onboarding: Guided setup and simplified management make it realistic for a small IT team to run, with monthly security summaries in place of a full SOC dashboard.
• Threat and vulnerability management: Built-in scanning and attack surface reduction close the gaps attackers use before they’re exploited.

Microsoft Defender for Business Pricing

Defender for Business costs $3.00 per user per month as a standalone subscription.

It’s also bundled into Microsoft 365 Business Premium at $22 per user per month, and a one-month free trial is available.

Microsoft Defender for Business Pros & Cons

✅ Simple onboarding, no SOC required.

✅ Native to the Microsoft 365 stack.

❌ It is not very good at detecting zero-day threats, according to a G2 review.

❌ Device-level EDR only, with no backup or recovery for cloud configuration.

Ransomware Protection Solution #6: Cohesity

Cohesity pairs hardened, immutable backups with AI threat detection across large data estates.

It’s aimed at organizations where downtime is measured in revenue and recovery has to happen at scale.

Cohesity Features

• Instant mass recovery at scale: When a large environment goes down, Cohesity can bring hundreds of VMs, file shares, and databases back to a chosen recovery point in one pass.
• Immutable snapshots with quorum approval: DataLock WORM immutability plus MFA, RBAC, and multi-person quorum stop a rogue admin or an attacker from quietly deleting backups.
• AI anomaly detection: Machine learning flags data anomalies and scans for malware using Google threat intelligence and custom YARA rules, so you recover clean data.

Cohesity Pricing

Cohesity prices by quote, though a 30-day free trial lets you try it before that conversation.

Cohesity Pros & Cons

✅ Instant recovery at scale for large VM and database estates.

✅ Immutable, quorum-protected backups raise the bar for attackers.

✅ Backed by a cyber event response team and Google threat intel.

❌ Quote-only pricing.

❌ Built around VM, NAS, and database recovery, which leaves network and identity configuration out.

Ransomware Protection Solution #7: Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect folds backup, anti-malware, and management into a single agent, and it’s a favorite among managed service providers.

The appeal is consolidation, so smaller teams stop juggling separate tools.

Acronis Cyber Protect Features

• Active Protection: Acronis watches file behavior in real time and halts an encryption attempt the moment it spots one.
• Unified backup and anti-malware: One agent handles full-image backup, file-level backup, antivirus, and patch management, which cuts the tool sprawl that creates security gaps.
• Backup self-defense: The software guards its own backup files and the Windows Master Boot Record, so attackers can’t corrupt the recovery path itself.

Acronis Cyber Protect Pricing

Acronis Cyber Protect uses per-device annual pricing, starting from €70.99 per year for Standard, with Backup Advanced from €89.99 per year and Advanced from €106.99 per year.

The MSP-focused Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is priced by quote.

Acronis Cyber Protect Pros & Cons

✅ Active Protection recovers files encrypted before the attack was stopped.

✅ One agent for backup, anti-malware, and management.

✅ Transparent per-device pricing from €70.99 per year.

❌ Sometimes issues arise when its compatibility needs to be there with AWS or Azure, according to a G2 review.

❌ It recovers files and machines, not IAM, DNS, or security-group state.

Ransomware Protection Solution #8: Trellix XDR

Trellix takes an open XDR approach, covering ransomware across endpoint, email, network, cloud, and data.

It was designed around the whole arc of an attack, not a single control point.

Trellix XDR Features

• Ransomware kill-chain coverage: Drawn from over 9,000 analyzed attacks, the platform detects and responds at every stage of a campaign, from the earliest recon activity through full recovery.
• Open XDR with broad integration: With over 1,000 integrations and multi-vendor detections, Trellix slots into an existing stack without a rip-and-replace.
• AI-guided investigation: Threat intelligence from a large customer base contextualizes and prioritizes alerts, cutting the time analysts spend on noise.

Trellix XDR Pricing

Trellix keeps XDR pricing private, so you’ll work through a quote with sales.

Trellix XDR Pros & Cons

✅ End-to-end kill-chain coverage across endpoint, email, network, cloud, and data.

✅ Open platform with over 1,000 integrations.

✅ A large threat-intel network sharpens detection.

❌ Custom pricing and an enterprise sales cycle slow evaluation.

❌ It detects and responds, but keeps no recoverable copy of your infrastructure configuration.

Ransomware Protection Solution #9: Varonis

Varonis comes at ransomware from the data side, watching how accounts and people touch sensitive files.

It fits teams worried as much about insider threats and data exposure as about endpoint malware.

Varonis Features

• Data-centric UEBA: Behavioral models learn normal data activity and flag abnormal access in real time, catching ransomware and insider threats as they reach sensitive files.
• Identity threat detection and response: Varonis monitors identities across cloud data stores and apps to spot privilege escalation and risky policy changes that tend to precede an attack.
• Managed response with a 30-minute SLA: The MDDR service promises a 30-minute response for ransomware, proactive hunting, and automated remediation that can stop an attack mid-stream.

Varonis Pricing

Varonis prices by quote, with a free data risk assessment as a no-commitment way to start.

Varonis Pros & Cons

✅ Watches the asset attackers are actually after: your data.

✅ A 30-minute managed response SLA is aggressive for the category.

✅ Automated remediation and SOAR integrations speed containment.

❌ Quote-based, with no public starting figure.

❌ Centered on data access and exposure, not infrastructure reconstruction.

Ransomware Protection Solution #10: Arctic Wolf Aurora

Arctic Wolf runs Aurora as a managed service, with an agentic SOC doing the heavy lifting.

It fits teams that want experts handling triage and investigation, not another 24/7 SOC to staff.

Arctic Wolf Aurora Features

• Agentic SOC: A Swarm of Experts framework runs over 300 agents that, between them, triaged and actioned 96.5% of customer alerts last year, cutting alert fatigue.
• Expert-managed endpoint security: Concierge experts onboarded more than a million endpoints last year and run day-to-day operations, with a reported 99% true-positive rate.
• Independently validated protection: Aurora scored 100% threat protection in Tolly Group testing, with low resource use alongside it.

Arctic Wolf Aurora Pricing

There’s no public price list for Arctic Wolf, so you’ll start with a demo and a quote.

Arctic Wolf Aurora Pros & Cons

✅ Fully managed, so experts handle triage and investigation.

✅ Strong efficacy: 99% true positives and 100% Tolly protection.

✅ The agentic SOC cuts alert fatigue for lean teams.

❌ Quote-based managed service, no public pricing.

❌ It covers endpoints and the SOC, not the cloud configuration layer.

Recover the control plane before the next ransomware attack with ControlMonkey

Ransomware doesn’t take businesses down because the data is gone.

It takes them down because the environment around that data can’t be rebuilt fast enough, or completely, before the damage lands.

When IAM is rewritten, DNS is wiped, and nobody knows what the last working state looked like, your backups stop mattering.

You still have your data, but you’ve lost the ability to operate.

Most ransomware plans quietly skip this part, and it’s the exact gap we built ControlMonkey to close.

While the rest of the market protects endpoints and storage volumes, we protect the layer every other tool assumes is still standing: your infrastructure configuration.

Every rule, route, permission, and dependency your environment relies on is captured continuously and versioned, ready to redeploy.

All of it, with no dependence on whatever script the last engineer left behind.

We remove the two risks that sink recovery efforts:

• The uncertainty of not knowing what existed.
• The slowness of not restoring it before real damage lands.

When an attack hits, you pick a point in time and restore. Dependencies sequence themselves and the environment comes back.

ControlMonkey isn’t the best ransomware protection solution because it stops more malware or stores more data.

It’s the best because it recovers the configuration layer that every other tool leaves behind.ent becomes a time machine you can rewind to a working state in one click.

In this article, I’ll cover the best GitHub backup solutions in 2026, what each one actually protects, how their recovery and retention models differ, and the gap most teams only notice the day they need it.

TL;DR

• ControlMonkey’s automated GitHub configuration backup and instant recovery make it the best GitHub backup solution for protecting how your GitHub environment actually runs.
• Our platform backs up and restores the GitHub configuration layer (repository settings, branch protection rules, permissions, GitHub Actions workflows, and webhooks), not the code itself, where every other vendor here backs up repository data. Most teams end up with half a recovery plan, because almost nothing on the market treats the configuration control plane as something you can restore.
• For teams that mainly want repository data and metadata protected with strong disaster recovery, migration, and compliance, GitProtect, Rewind, Cloudback, and Keepit are all excellent picks.
• BackupLABS, SimpleBackups, Backrightup, Gitbackups, and Gickup are good options if you want good per-repository pricing, multi-tool consolidation, granular metadata restore, or a free self-hosted route. What none of them bring back are the branch protections, permissions, and workflows that make a recovered repository usable again.

What are the 10 best GitHub backup solutions in 2026?

The best GitHub backup solutions in 2026 are ControlMonkey, with its GitHub configuration backup capabilities, GitProtect, and Rewind.

Here’s a breakdown of our shortlisted platforms:

Tool	Features	Pricing
#1: ControlMonkey	GitHub configuration backup (repository settings, branch protections, permissions, Actions workflows, webhooks), instant Time Machine recovery to a working state, drift and change visibility, extends to GitHub and cloud config.	Free Resilience Assessment ($0). Pro and Enterprise are custom.
#2: GitProtect	Cross-platform DR and migration across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, your own AES-256 key, unlimited retention, immutable ransomware-resistant storage.	Team plans start at $24/month for 15 repositories and scale with repository count.
#3: Rewind (formerly BackHub)	Most-installed GitHub backup app, point-in-time restore with version compare, daily metadata backups, Cloud Sync to Azure and S3.	Pro $200/month; Enterprise $400/month; both $4/user/month. Individual $14/month.
#4: Cloudback	Per-repository pricing, customer-managed keys (RSA Lockbox), official Terraform provider and MCP server, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Linear from one dashboard.	Free (1 repo); Basic $10/month per 10 units; Team $75/month per 100; Enterprise $500/month per 1,000.
#5: BackupLABS	GitHub plus Trello, Notion, Jira, and GitLab under one roof, per-repo pricing with unlimited users, your own storage, restore back into GitHub or as a zip.	Essentials from $9.60/month; Pro from $13.44/month; Enterprise is custom.
#6: Keepit	Backups on Keepit’s own infrastructure (not a hyperscaler), immutable storage, broad SaaS coverage with GitHub as one app, deep compliance (HIPAA, FINRA, NIS2).	Contact sales for all tiers.
#7: SimpleBackups	One tool for GitHub plus databases, servers, and storage, very wide storage support, developer API, schedules down to 5-minute intervals.	Basic free (1 job); Lite $39/month; Plus $79/month; Max $239/month.
#8: Backrightup (now Rubrik)	Granular restore of individual issues, PRs, Actions, and wikis, whole-project recovery (beta), strong Azure DevOps coverage, SOC 2 Type II.	Free plan on GitHub Marketplace; otherwise contact for a quote.
#9: Gitbackups	Nightly incremental backups, immutable object-locked storage, multi-platform, your own S3, GCS, or Azure storage.	Starter $9/month (10 repos); Pro $19/month (50); Team $39/month (unlimited).
#10: Gickup	Free open-source CLI, self-hosted, mirrors repositories across many Git hosts to local disk or S3.	Free (open-source).

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Why should you have a GitHub backup solution?

You need a GitHub backup solution because recovering your repositories and their configuration after a deletion or a compromise is your responsibility, not GitHub’s.

GitHub stopped being a place to just store code a long time ago.

It’s now a place where: 

• Your product’s entire infrastructure is defined.
• Your deployments get triggered.
• Approvals from your team get enforced.
• Access as a whole gets controlled.

And, similar to every major cloud platform, GitHub runs a shared responsibility model.

GitHub keeps the platform online and durable.

You own your data, your access, and your configurations.

Recovering from an accidental or malicious deletion is on you, and the native retention controls were never designed to be a backup.

This is why it’ll be your responsibility to deal with token leakage, phishing issues, and breaches.

But getting the repository back is only part of recovery.

The other part is everything wrapped around it:

• Branch protection rules.
• Repository settings.
• Permissions and access controls.
• GitHub Actions workflows.
• Webhooks. 

If you just restore the code without those, you’ll have your code while your deployments, reviews, and approvals stay broken.

The reality is that modern resilience needs more than traditional data backup.

ControlMonkey (that’s us) extends the same idea to the GitHub configuration layer and to your broader cloud infrastructure configuration.

GitHub Backup Solution #1: ControlMonkey

ControlMonkey offers the best GitHub backup for the configuration layer because it continuously captures, versions, and restores the settings that decide how your code ships and who’s allowed to touch it.

Traditional GitHub backup tools protect your repository data (e.g., code, issues, pull requests, and wikis), but our platform protects the GitHub control plane:

Webhooks and integrations.

We see the same story play out over and over.

A team restores its code after an incident, exhales, and then realizes nobody ever backed up the branch rules, permissions, workflows, and webhooks that made the repository usable in the first place.

Let’s go over ControlMonkey’s GitHub backup features:

Automated GitHub Configuration Backups

Your repository is not your GitHub environment.

The environment is everything around it: who can merge, which checks are required, what your Actions workflows do, and which webhooks fire on a push.

ControlMonkey captures that configuration continuously and commits each snapshot as versioned snapshots, so you’ve always got a clean point to roll back to.

Continuous capture covers:

• Repository and organization settings that define collaboration, visibility, and merge behavior, stored as configuration you can redeploy, not screenshots you recreate by hand.
• Branch protection rules and rulesets that enforce code quality and deployment safety, versioned so you can see the exact moment a protection was dropped and put it back.
• Permissions, Actions workflows, and webhooks, the operational glue that decides what runs and who’s allowed to run it.

When a branch protection disappears, or a workflow gets quietly edited, you can see that it happened, see what changed, and reverse it.

Instant GitHub Configuration Recovery (Time Machine)

Speed matters the most during an incident. 

Whether you face minutes of disruption or days of downtime usually turns on one thing, which is whether you can get back to a working configuration without rebuilding it manually.

ControlMonkey’s Time Machine lets your team restore a single setting or a whole environment’s configuration to any earlier snapshot.

You can pick the snapshot you want to return to, and your team can decide whether to restore one repository or roll back broadly.

Protection From Account Takeover, Human Error, and Over-Permissive AI Agents

Three very different problems end in the same place: your GitHub configuration is wrong, and you have no clean copy to put back.

Account takeover and ransomware-style extortion strip protections, rewrite pipelines, and lock you out of your own delivery process.

Human error is just as routine. Engineers still pull the wrong branch protection or change access on the wrong repository at the wrong time.

The newest risk is AI agents that pick up more CI/CD work. An agent with permissions can make sweeping configuration changes in seconds, with no malice and no heads-up.

For AI agents, we’ve got something else too: cloud configuration anomaly detection, where our solution automatically detects unexpected and suspicious configuration changes across your cloud infrastructure.

ControlMonkey keeps an external, versioned copy of your GitHub configuration, so when something goes sideways, recovery doesn’t rely on whoever happens to remember how things were wired.

Complete Visibility Into GitHub DR Readiness

Most teams honestly couldn’t tell you whether they could recover their GitHub environment, because they’ve never seen it laid out in one place.

Our platform gives you a single view of what’s backed up, what’s drifting, and how close to recoverable you really are.

You can track DR readiness over time, catch coverage gaps before an incident finds them first, and pull audit-ready backups and evidence without a fire drill.

The same continuous-capture model reaches past GitHub and to your wider cloud infrastructure configuration, so resilience doesn’t end up scattered across a dozen disconnected tools.

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ControlMonkey vs. traditional GitHub backup tools

I want to be honest here and say that ControlMonkey actually complements the rest of the tools in this list, and we don’t actually replace or compete with them.

Tools like GitProtect, Rewind, and Cloudback protect repository data: your code, its history, and the metadata around it.

On the other hand, ControlMonkey protects your GitHub configuration: the rules, permissions, workflows, and webhooks wrapped around the code.

Our jobs don’t overlap. They stack.

I’d say that a complete GitHub recovery plan needs both a repository-data backup and a configuration backup, which is why we built our integrations to work alongside the tools you already run.

ControlMonkey connects through read-only access, captures the configuration layer those tools skip, and carries the same model across GitLab and your cloud and SaaS configuration.

Pricing

ControlMonkey offers three plans that you can choose from:

• Free Resilience Assessment: Ideal for teams that want to understand their cloud and SaaS recovery risk before buying. It includes cloud and SaaS configuration discovery, a resilience score, recovery gap insights, and drift detection in detection-only mode, plus a review of the findings with our team.
• Pro: Custom pricing, which covers up to 50,000 cloud assets and 50,000 protected resources, and adds snapshot change tracking over time, full drift detection with remediation, the ClickOps scanner, and RBAC, backed by specialized support.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing for complex, large-scale enterprise environments, with custom cloud asset and protected resource scopes and the same specialized support.

Replication to a secondary region or account and a self-hosted agent option are also available on paid plans.

Pros & Cons

✅ Backs up the full GitHub configuration layer: settings, branch protections, permissions, Actions workflows, and webhooks.

✅ One-click recovery to a working state.

✅ Stands up to account takeover, human error, and over-permissive AI agents.

✅ Continuous, versioned capture with drift and change visibility built in.

✅ Same DR model carries over to GitLab and your cloud infrastructure configuration.

✅ Free Resilience Assessment maps your exposure before you spend a cent.

❌ It doesn’t back up repository code or data, so you’ll run it alongside a repository data backup tool.

GitHub Backup Solution #2: GitProtect

GitProtect is a security-first backup and disaster recovery platform that protects GitHub repositories and most of their metadata, with restore and migration across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.

It’s a good platform for compliance-driven teams that need audited, your-own-key backups and a way to keep shipping on another Git host if GitHub goes dark.

GitProtect Features

• Cross-platform DR and migration: Restore to the same account, a new one, a local machine, or a different vendor entirely. If GitHub goes dark for a while, your team keeps working on Bitbucket, GitLab, or Azure DevOps from the same backup.
• Bring-your-own-key encryption with unlimited retention: AES-256 in transit and at rest under your own key, with data residency in the US, EU, Australia, or a custom region.
• Ransomware-resistant, policy-driven backups: Immutable storage, non-executable copies, and flexible policy, schedule, and GFS scheduling across repositories, metadata, and LFS.

GitProtect Pricing

GitProtect has 3 paid plans that you can choose from based on your number of repositories:

A Customize tier that is quote-based for larger or self-hosted setups.

Team plans start at $24/month for 15 repositories and scale with repository count, with the 200-repository tier at $200/month.

Enterprise starts at $36/month for 15 repositories, and scales up to $8,000/month for 1,000 repositories, and unlocks cross-platform DR, your own storage, and SLA reporting.

GitProtect Pros & Cons

✅ Broad cross-platform restore and migration across four Git hosts.

✅ Your own encryption key, custom data residency, and genuinely unlimited retention.

✅ Proven by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits.

❌ Lack of detailed error logs, according to a G2 review.

❌ It captures repository data and metadata, so the branch protections and workflows that make a repo deployable still need a separate configuration backup.

GitHub Backup Solution #3: Rewind (formerly BackHub)

Rewind backs up your GitHub repositories and metadata automatically every day and restores them in a few clicks, with point-in-time recovery and version comparison.

It’s a good fit for teams that want a set-and-forget option and care about fast rollback.

Rewind Features

• Point-in-time restore with version compare: Recover repositories and metadata in a few clicks, comparing versions to pinpoint exactly what changed and shorten mean time to recovery.
• Cloud Sync and longer retention: On Enterprise, sync backups to your own Azure or Amazon S3 and hold 365-day retention, with Git LFS support in early access.
• Also comes with automated backups, granular data recovery, data location storage, cloud sync, access logs, and audit-ready compliance reports.

Rewind Pricing

Pricing follows GitHub organization members.

Pro is $200/month at $4/user/month for 50 members, and Enterprise is $400/month at $4/user/month for 100 or more.

There’s also a $14/month Individual plan for personal use.

Rewind Pros & Cons

✅ The most widely adopted and battle-tested GitHub backup app available.

✅ Version comparison makes recovery quick and precise.

✅ Strong metadata coverage, with Cloud Sync to your own storage on Enterprise.

❌ A large org with relatively few repos still pays per seat.

GitHub Backup Solution #4: Cloudback

Cloudback runs SOC 2 Type II backups of GitHub repositories and metadata, with customer-held encryption keys and per-repository pricing, plus coverage for GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Linear from a single dashboard.

Cloudback Features

• Customer-managed encryption (RSA Lockbox): You hold your own RSA key pair, and Cloudback works only from the public half, so the private key stays on your side and never reaches their systems.
• Backups as code: Drive your entire backup configuration through an official Terraform provider, an Operations API, or an MCP server for AI assistants, so platform teams ship backups the way they ship everything else.
• Bring-your-own-storage with WORM immutability: You can write up to ten storage targets, including S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, and OneDrive, with S3 Object Lock for write-once, ransomware-resistant copies.

Cloudback Pricing

Cloudback prices by unit, where one unit is a single GitHub repository (Azure DevOps repos and GitLab projects each count as a unit too), and every plan includes all features.

A free plan covers one repository up to 100MB.

Paid plans are Basic at $10/month per 10 units, Team at $75/month per 100 units, and Enterprise at $500/month per 1,000 units, with support for up to 10,000 repositories per account before you need to contact them.

Cloudback Pros & Cons

✅ Customer-managed keys give you real control over your own encryption.

✅ Fair per-repository pricing, plus full Terraform and API automation.

✅ Audit log with over 60 event types, SIEM forwarding, and a Vanta integration for compliance.

❌ Per-unit costs still climb for very large fleets, even while they undercut per-seat models.

GitHub Backup Solution #5: BackupLABS

BackupLABS backs up GitHub repositories and gists next to Trello, Notion, Jira, and GitLab, and restores them straight back into the app or as a zip.

It’s aimed at small and mid-sized teams that want predictable per-repository pricing and unlimited users, with one tool covering more than just their code.

BackupLABS Features

• More than Git in one place: Back up GitHub repositories and gists next to Trello boards, Notion workspaces, Jira projects, and GitLab, so a single tool covers more of your stack than a GitHub-only app.
• Direct restore and your own storage: Restore straight back into GitHub or pull a zip, and on Pro plans push copies to your own Amazon S3, Google Drive, or Dropbox with 90-day retention.
• Priced by repository, not by user: You choose how many repositories to protect and the price scales with that, so adding people to the account doesn’t drive the bill.

BackupLABS Pricing

Essentials starts at $9.60/month and Pro at $13.44/month on annual billing, priced at the ten-repository tier and scaling up as you protect more.

Enterprise is custom and adds bring-your-own encryption keys, custom retention, SLAs, and a dedicated account manager.

BackupLABS Pros & Cons

✅ One dashboard for GitHub plus Trello, Notion, Jira, and GitLab.

✅ Restore directly into GitHub, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

❌ User accounts are capped: Essentials is single-user, and Pro and Enterprise top out at five users.

❌ Audit logs, Okta SSO, and bring-your-own storage are all gated to Pro and above.

GitHub Backup Solution #6: Keepit

Keepit stores your GitHub backups on infrastructure it owns and runs itself, alongside a wide SaaS estate that includes Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, and Okta.

It works best for regulated enterprises that want one governed backup platform across many SaaS apps and a genuinely independent place to hold the copies.

Keepit Features

• Independent backup cloud: Backups land in Keepit’s own mirrored infrastructure, not on AWS or Azure, which keeps your safety net separate from the platforms it’s covering and lines up with the 3-2-1 rule and the NIST framework.
• Centralized SaaS governance: A single console runs backups across your whole SaaS estate, with unified reporting for managers who’d rather not juggle a separate tool per app.
• Compliance-grade retention and immutability: Immutable, ransomware-resistant storage with retention up to unlimited, plus coverage for demanding frameworks like HIPAA, FINRA, FISMA, GDPR, and NIS2.

Keepit Pricing

Keepit doesn’t publish prices. All three tiers (Business Essentials, Enterprise Unlimited, and Governance Plus) run through sales, with bundle discounts for protecting several SaaS apps at once.

Keepit Pros & Cons

✅ A genuinely independent backup cloud that Keepit owns and runs, separate from any hyperscaler.

✅ One place to govern GitHub alongside a broad SaaS estate.

✅ Strong immutability and deep regulatory coverage.

❌ No public pricing, so every quote starts with a sales call.

GitHub Backup Solution #7: SimpleBackups

SimpleBackups protects GitHub repositories and metadata in the same tool that backs up your databases, servers, and cloud storage.

It’s made for teams tired of running a separate backup tool for every part of their stack who want to consolidate into one.

SimpleBackups Features

• GitHub and your databases together: Back up GitHub repositories and metadata next to MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, servers, and storage, so the patchwork of single-purpose backup tools can go.
• A long list of storage targets: Send backups almost anywhere, from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to Backblaze and Wasabi, with multi-storage replication for redundancy.
• API-driven, tightly scheduled: Run backups through an API as often as every five minutes on higher plans, with a disaster recovery dashboard and anomaly detection watching over them.

SimpleBackups Pricing

Basic is free for a single backup job.

Paid plans include Lite at $39/month (25 repositories), Plus at $79/month (100 repositories), and Max at $239/month (unlimited repositories).

SimpleBackups Pros & Cons

✅ Folds GitHub, database, server, and storage backups into one tool.

✅ The widest bring-your-own-storage support on this list.

✅ Flexible schedules and a developer API for automation.

❌ Repository counts are capped per tier until you reach the Max plan.

GitHub Backup Solution #8: Backrightup

Now part of Rubrik after a 2026 acquisition, Backrightup runs SOC 2 Type II backups of GitHub and Azure DevOps, with granular restore down to a single issue, PR, Action, or wiki.

It targets enterprises that run both GitHub and Azure DevOps and want item-level recovery with a large vendor behind the product.

Backrightup Features

• Granular metadata restore: Recover one issue, PR, Action, or wiki in a single click, with whole-project recovery in beta, which is rare in this category.
• Real Azure DevOps coverage: Backs up GitHub and Azure DevOps repos and metadata side by side, handy for teams living in both.
• Enterprise controls and your storage: SSO, MFA, Okta and Azure Key Vault integration, audit logs, and a choice of Azure, AWS, SFTP, or your own storage across US, EU, and Australia regions.

Backrightup Pricing

A free plan is available on the GitHub Marketplace. Beyond that, Backrightup doesn’t publish tiers, so you book a call for a quote.

Backrightup Pros & Cons

✅ Granular restore of individual metadata items, plus one-click project recovery in beta.

✅ Genuinely strong Azure DevOps support alongside GitHub.

❌ No public pricing, so getting numbers means booking a call.

GitHub Backup Solution #9: Gitbackups

Gitbackups runs nightly incremental backups to immutable storage across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.

It’s ideal for cost-conscious teams that want flat, simple pricing and a backup they can set once and stop thinking about.

Gitbackups Features

• Nightly incremental backups: Only what changed since the last run gets captured, which keeps backups fast and storage cheap while still protecting repositories, issues, PRs, wikis, and LFS.
• Immutable, ransomware-resistant storage: Write-once storage with object locking and versioning means a compromised system can’t delete or encrypt your backups.
• Your storage or theirs: Plug in your own S3, GCS, or Azure Blob keys, or let Gitbackups handle storage on its geo-redundant multi-cloud setup. pricier alternatives.

Gitbackups Pricing

Gitbackups has 3 plans that you can choose from with no long-term contracts:

Starter is $9/month for up to 10 repositories, Pro is $19/month for up to 50, and Team is $39/month for unlimited repositories.

Gitbackups Pros & Cons

✅ Simple flat pricing, with unlimited repos at $39/month.

✅ Nightly incremental backups paired with immutable storage.

❌ Self-serve restore is still marked as coming soon.

❌ It’s newer and less battle-tested than other solutions on this list.

GitHub Backup Solution #10: Gickup

Gickup is a free, open-source tool that mirrors your repositories from one Git host to another, running as a self-hosted CLI or Docker container.

It’s the perfect option for individuals who want full control with no vendor and no subscription, as long as they don’t mind being the one who keeps it running.

Gickup Features

• Open-source and self-hosted: Apache-licensed and community-maintained, so you keep full control with no third party in the loop.
• Mirrors across many Git hosts: Clone or mirror repositories between GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gogs, Bitbucket, Codeberg, and more, out to local disk or S3.
• Config-driven automation: Define everything in a YAML file and run it on a schedule with cron or Docker.

Gickup Pricing

Gickup is free and open-source.

Gickup Pros & Cons

✅ Free, open-source, and entirely under your control.

✅ Mirrors across a wide range of Git hosts to local storage or S3.

❌ DIY setup and upkeep with no support.

Make your GitHub environment recoverable before you have to be

GitHub environments don’t fail because the code is gone. They fail because the code comes back and nothing else does.

• The branch protections are missing.
• The required reviewers are gone.
• The Actions workflows don’t fire.
• The webhooks point at nothing
• The permissions are scrambled.

You’ve got your repository, and you still can’t ship a thing. That’s the gap almost every GitHub backup strategy quietly leaves open.

The category was built to protect repository data, and repository data is only a part of what keeps GitHub running.

Closing that gap is the entire reason we designed ControlMonkey the way we did.

While the rest of the market backs up your code, we back up what decides how that code ships and who’s allowed near it: every rule, permission, workflow, and webhook, captured continuously and ready to restore.

That kills the two things that actually hurt during a GitHub incident: not knowing what your configuration looked like, and not being able to put it back fast enough.

Our platform helps you prevent this with versioned snapshots, as every environment becomes a time machine you can rewind to a working state in one click.