HYCU Expands R-Shield With Halcyon Ransomware Defense

HYCU has expanded its R-Shield cyber resilience platform through a new integration with Halcyon, adding advanced ransomware prevention and data exfiltration protection. 

The update aims to address persistent gaps in enterprise security strategies, particularly the fragmentation of tools that limits organizations’ ability to detect, stop, and recover from modern ransomware attacks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

HYCU targets siloed tools in ransomware defense gap

By combining Halcyon’s purpose-built anti-ransomware technology with HYCU’s protection across the entire data estate, organizations gain a more unified and comprehensive approach to cyber resilience, along with integrated data protection against persistent ransomware threats.

The expanded HYCU R-Shield also enables organizations to detect ransomware threats earlier, disrupt attacks before they spread, and recover quickly when incidents occur.

“Our 2025 State of SaaS Resilience Survey found that nearly 80% of organizations experienced data loss or disruption in the past year, and more than half lacked confidence in their ability to recover quickly across all workloads,” said Simon Taylor, founder and chief executive officer at HYCU. 

“By integrating Halcyon’s prevention capabilities with R-Shield, we are delivering a single, more complete resilience model, one that gives customers the assurance that ransomware threats can be identified early, stopped wherever possible, and recovered rapidly when they occur,” Taylor added.

HYCU and Halcyon deliver a unified ransomware resilience model

The enhanced R-Cloud platform with R-Shield, with ransomware prevention powered by Halcyon, addresses this gap with these three capabilities:

• Detect: Identifies ransomware behavior directly on endpoints and production workloads before backup data is impacted.
• Prevent: Stops ransomware activity, including encryption and exfiltration attempts, reducing the number of attacks that can ever reach the backups.
• Recover: Enables rapid, application-centric recovery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

HYCU and Halcyon say this integrated approach shifts organizations from reactive recovery to proactive resilience, reducing both the frequency and impact of ransomware incidents.

“Organizations today face a growing gap between their confidence in ransomware preparedness and the reality of modern attacks, especially as more data moves to the cloud,” said Jon Miller, chief executive officer and co-founder at Halcyon. 

“Our partnership with HYCU extends Halcyon’s platform to protect these environments, delivering the resilience organizations need to prevent ransomware from running and to rapidly recover if an attack occurs,” Miller continued.

In addition to the new Halcyon-powered capabilities, HYCU recently introduced malware scanning for Amazon EC2 and Azure backups, helping customers verify clean restore points and recover with greater confidence.
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