HYCU accelerates on SaaS data protection with advanced resiliency features

As enterprises race toward SaaS, hybrid cloud, and AI-driven architectures, HYCU argues that data resilience has become one of the most underestimated risks in modern IT. At The IT Press Tour #64 presentation, the data protection specialist laid out a stark message: cloud adoption has outpaced organizations’ ability to recover when things go wrong.

HYCU, which now protects more than 4,600 organizations across 78 countries, positions itself as a response to what it calls the “illusion of safety” in SaaS and cloud platforms. While cloud services promise availability, the presentation highlighted numerous real-world incidents - from accidental deletions to misconfigured scripts and prolonged regional outages - demonstrating that business-critical data can disappear without warning. According to HYCU’s own 2025 State of SaaS Resilience Report, 65% of organizations experienced at least one SaaS data breach in the past year, and nearly all enterprises increased their SaaS usage over the last three years.

The company’s central thesis is that resilience must be built at the platform level, not bolted on through fragmented tools. Today’s backup market, HYCU argues, is riddled with silos: separate products for SaaS, cloud workloads, databases, data lakes, and AI pipelines - often with different consoles, policies, and storage constraints. This fragmentation drives up costs, creates blind spots, and leaves organizations exposed to ransomware, insider threats, and supply chain attacks.

HYCU’s answer is an extensible, workload-aware data protection platform designed around customer ownership and control. A defining principle is that HYCU does not store customer data. Instead, backups remain in customer-owned storage - on-premises or in the public cloud - preserving sovereignty, compliance, and flexibility. Encryption, immutability, and policy-driven automation are applied consistently across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and emerging AI/ML workloads.

The presentation placed particular emphasis on SaaS resilience, an area many enterprises still overlook. HYCU now supports more than 90 SaaS integrations, including platforms such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, GitHub, Jira, Box, Salesforce, and iManage Cloud. Beyond traditional backup and restore, the company has expanded into SaaS disaster recovery, offline recovery, and customer-readable copies—allowing organizations to access data even if a SaaS provider suffers a prolonged outage or supply-chain compromise.

AI and data lake protection emerged as another major theme. As cloud object storage becomes the new system of record for analytics and AI, HYCU highlighted how data recreation costs - egress fees, pipeline rebuilds, and lost productivity - can far exceed the cost of proper protection. Its platform now delivers atomic backups, granular recovery, long-term retention, and significant storage efficiencies—claiming reductions of more than 40:1 in some scenarios.

Security is further reinforced through HYCU R-Shield, a set of capabilities focused on cyber resilience. Unlike approaches that require sending data to vendor-controlled scanning environments, R-Shield performs malware detection at the source, maintaining full customer control. Combined with immutable, “break-glass” backups through HYCU R-Lock, the platform is designed to meet modern ransomware recovery requirements across hybrid, cloud, and SaaS environments.

In closing, HYCU framed resilience not as an IT feature, but as a business imperative. As regulatory pressure increases and downtime costs escalate, the company’s message was clear: organizations must assume disruption will happen - and design recovery strategies that work across any cloud, any application, and any future workload.