What’s New with R-Shield Scanner: Built-In, Rapid Malware Detection

For years, backup success was measured by a green checkmark. If the job completed without error, most organizations assumed their data was protected. But in today’s world of ransomware, compliance pressure, and increasing infrastructure complexity, that assumption is no longer sufficient. 

At HYCU, we’ve always believed protection should go further, beyond simple job completion, to deliver verifiable outcomes: confidence in recovery, assurance of compliance, and immediate visibility into risk. That belief is at the core of the latest advancements in HYCU R-Shield Malware Scanner, now available for customers running on-prem environments running Nutanix. 

With these new capabilities, HYCU R-Shield strengthens your ability to deliver on business-critical objectives, like maintaining uptime, meeting SLAs, and proactively identifying malware, while keeping operations simple and automated. 

Ultimate Visibility: Full Confidence in Protection, Validation, and Security 

Traditional backup platforms can tell you that a job completed. But they rarely tell you if that backup is usable, compliant, or safe. 

HYCU R-Shield now delivers a unified view across your most critical workloads, allowing you to immediately confirm: 

• The backup was captured successfully
• The backup has passed HYCU’s built-in validation checks
• The recovery point meets your organization’s defined SLA
• Your data can be recovered within your Maximum defined RTO
• The image is clean, with no indicators of compromise or detected malware, as scanned by R-Shield’s advanced detection engine 

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For IT teams, this means less time interpreting logs and more time delivering value. For IT leaders, it provides operational clarity and audit-ready assurance—all from a single interface. 

Expanded Unified Policy Engine: Resilience That’s Built In, Not Bolted On 

Resilience should not require a separate tool or a separate workflow. With this release, HYCU R-Shield is now fully integrated into HYCU’s Unified Policy Engine, enabling organizations to automate cyber resilience as part of their standard protection workflows. 

From a single policy, teams can now define and enforce: 

• Backup frequency
• Recover Time Object
• Validation rules
• Replication and archival locations & schedules
• Instant restore capability
• And now cyber resiliency with HYCU R-Shield policies 

This ensures that no workload is left behind, and that resilience is consistent, embedded, and automated. Cyber protection is no longer an afterthought. It is an integrated part of your existing backup and recovery pipeline. 

12X Performance Increase: Faster Scans, Faster Insights, Faster Recovery 

Speed matters. When threats are detected earlier, you minimize the blast radius and the potential impact. 

The latest R-Shield engine delivers up to 12X faster scan performance, reducing wait time from detection to action. That means: 

• Less time wondering whether backups are safe
• More time knowing what’s clean, what’s at risk, and what needs attention
• Earlier response and containment, reducing lateral spread
• Smaller impact, faster recoveries, and higher success rates 

For teams managing mission-critical systems, this isn’t just a technical upgrade. It’s a time advantage, and that can make all the difference. 

A New Standard for Cyber-Resilient Backup 

With these enhancements, HYCU R-Shield redefines what organizations should expect from modern data protection, especially in mission-critical on-prem environments. 

You now have the ability to: 

• Confirm recovery readiness immediately
• Integrate cyber resilience directly into your protection policies
• Orchestrate Dell DD replication from a unified platform
• Detect early indicators of compromise before they spread
• Visually identify any identified malware within your backups
• Reduce operational risk while maintaining simplicity at scale 

For organizations focused on minimizing downtime, meeting regulatory mandates, and preparing for the unexpected, HYCU R-Shield is now an essential part of the data protection stack. 

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