Last Friday (November 14, 2025), IBM announced the newest addition to the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect portfolio with the availability of the Data Protect Vault Service. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats such as ransomware, insider attacks, and AI-driven malware, it is essential to isolate data and maintain rapid recovery capabilities. IBM Defender Data Protect Vault Service is a fully managed SaaS solution managed by IBM, ideal for organizations seeking rapid deployment, minimal operational overhead, and expert management.
Key Cyber Threats that necessitating Backup Data Isolation (for details refer 2025 IBM threat intelligence index report)
- Ransomware is the most disruptive threat, capable of encrypting and corrupting primary and backup data, resulting in business shutdowns or costly ransom payments.
- Insider threats, whether malicious or accidental, can target backup infrastructure, delete recovery copies, or sabotage critical business data. Valid credentials were used in roughly 30% of all observed intrusions, with attackers increasingly leveraging stolen identities to gain access and move laterally within compromised environments.
- AI-powered cyberattacks automate lateral movement and exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever, challenging security controls and necessitating resilient recovery plans.
Why Isolation coupled with Fast Recovery Matter
- Isolated Vaults create secure, immutable, and logically or physically separated copies inaccessible to malware or attackers during an incident. This isolation ensures known-good recovery points remain untouched and available
- Recovery solutions using vaults enable rapid, automated orchestration of clean environments for applications and data—not just restoring files but rebuilding key systems securely and efficiently.
- Regulatory compliance, Cybersecurity Insurance and business resilience now require vaulting and rapid recovery strategies by design, with regular testing, monitoring, and validation of restore processes.
A SaaS based Vault reduces barriers and accelerates the ability of organization to extend their backup and add Vaulted copies. A SaaS base vault bring some unique advantages:
Turnkey Simplicity: No more procuring, deploying, maintaining and updating individual Hardware and Software Vault infrastructure. IBM Managed SaaS offering is built on IBM’s AWS infrastructure and provides customers access to the vault service across geographies and regions globally at scale.
State-of-the-Art Security: Built on existing secure AWS infrastructure, the IBM managed SaaS offer manages configuration, ongoing patching, vulnerability management for you along with applying the role-based access controls, immutability, managed keys, encryption and other security principles.
Unmatched Time to Value: As simple as Connect, Vault and Recover. Get started in days vs months meeting your organizations resilience and compliance needs.
- Isolated Vault with Physical separation and management isolation
- Storage Tiers: choose from warm or cold storage based on RTO
- Warm Tier: Data available to restore instantly
- Cold Tier: Could take up to 4hrs depending on the size of data to rehydrate before restore starts
- Customizable Protection Policies from Data Management Service including role-based access, encryption, MFA, and quorum
- Recovery from vaulted copies to original or alternate location (on-premises or the cloud)
Data Protect Vault extends the traditional 3-2-1 strategy for the Cybersecurity era, enabling an isolated copy with rapid recovery capabilities to enables organizations to be both secure and resilient. Organization can rely of the additional layer of security against ransomware and other cyberthreats offered by Data Protect Vault all while implementing rapid recovery capabilities from a safe and secure copy in the Vault.
Please reach out to your local IBM Business partner or IBM team to get started.
Additional information below:
Announce: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/storage-defender-data-protect-vault-adds-additional-layers-data-resilience-portfolio
Data Sheet: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/1443d5cddcc02918