Here’s the problem nobody talks about:
Most backup tools don’t actually protect you from ransomware.
They just back up the ransomware too.
Malware doesn’t always announce itself. It sits quietly in your systems, sometimes for weeks, infecting backup after backup before anyone notices. By the time you realise something’s wrong, every recovery point you have is compromised. What should have been a quick restore turns into a rebuild that costs you days, weeks, sometimes months.
Cloud-only setups make this worse. When something goes wrong with a data centre, or an account gets locked, or a provider has an outage, you can lose visibility into where your own data actually sits. That’s not protection. That’s a black box.
When backup destinations are managed entirely within a third-party cloud environment, an incident affecting one or multiple data centres can leave an organisation with limited visibility into the physical location, custody chain, or integrity status of its own backup copies. For organisations operating under regulatory frameworks that require demonstrable control over data location and recoverability - UK GDPR, FCA and PRA operational resilience requirements, and the EU’s NIS2 and DORA regimes among them - this lack of visibility is increasingly difficult to justify to auditors, regulators, and insurers alike.
Maeko Data Protect was built to fix this, properly - in direct response to a structural weakness in conventional backup architecture: the assumption that a backup, simply by existing, constitutes protection.
We isolate your critical database records outside your production environment and protect them continuously, at record level - not just file level, not just “whenever the nightly job runs.” Every change gets captured, scanned, and stored cleanly. Crucially, the destination for that protected data is a server or location of your own choosing - not a vendor-operated cloud environment whose physical infrastructure and governance you cannot directly inspect or control.
No guesswork. No “we think it’s probably fine.” Just clean, recoverable data, always ready.