Recovery Confidence v. Recovery Speed: Takeaways from Gartner’s New Market Guide for Cyberstorage
Gartner released its Market Guide for Cyberstorage last month, and CyberSense by Index Engines is proud to be recognized as a representative vendor. The report validates a shift we’ve been championing for years: storage is no longer a passive layer in cyber resilience strategy.
The findings are significant. Gartner recorded a 187% year-over-year increase in client inquiries around data resiliency in 2025. By 2028, at least 50% of enterprises are expected to evaluate cyberstorage solutions based on time-to-detect and recovery assurance capabilities, up from less than 20% today. By 2029, Gartner projects that all storage products will include active cyberstorage capabilities, up from just 20% in early 2025.
Modern attackers actively target backups and snapshots. They corrupt recovery points, encrypt data slowly to evade detection, and compromise administrative credentials to disable defenses from within. Gartner is clear on this point: backup-based detection is inherently reactive because it operates on data after it has already been copied. Active detection across both primary and secondary storage is essential to catching threats as they unfold.
Gartner recommends focusing on recovery assurance alongside traditional RTO and RPO metrics. Organizations must know what they can restore, but also trust the data they are restoring. Recovering corrupted or malware-laden data into production can significantly worsen an incident. Before any recovery action is taken, organizations need to know that the data is clean, complete, and untouched.
This is where data integrity validation plays a critical role, and where CyberSense is purpose-built to help. Using deep content inspection and AI-driven analytics, CyberSense scans backup data across primary and secondary storage environments to detect the fingerprints of ransomware corruption: altered file structures, suspicious entropy changes, and mass modifications that signature-based tools miss. It identifies the last known clean recovery point, enabling restoration decisions with confidence.
Gartner also highlights that cyberstorage must integrate with SecOps workflows, feeding telemetry into SIEM platforms, supporting forensic investigation, and participating in coordinated incident response. CyberSense provides the detailed corruption intelligence that security and infrastructure teams need to make faster, better-informed decisions together.
CyberSense by Index Engines helps organizations make recovery assurance a measurable, repeatable outcome.
Read the full Gartner Market Guide for Cyberstorage to learn more.
