Constellation ShortList™ Cyber Resilience Solutions and Data Protection Platforms
Executive Summary
About This ShortList
Cyber resilience has evolved beyond backup and recovery to encompass an organization’s ability to withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber incidents with minimal business disruption. As ransomware, insider risk, and cloud misconfigurations increasingly target critical data rather than just infrastructure, cyber resilience now depends on understanding what data matters, where it resides, and how quickly and safely it can be restored.
Modern cyber resilience platforms continue to anchor on secure, immutable backup and rapid recovery, but they are expanding to incorporate data awareness, exposure analysis, and recovery prioritization. Capabilities such as data classification, sensitivity analysis, and blast-radius assessment, often associated with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), are becoming essential inputs into resilience strategies. Without this context, organizations risk restoring systems without addressing underlying data exposure or recovering non-critical data ahead of business-critical assets.
The market is also converging as backup, security, and data governance vendors extend their platforms through native development and acquisitions. Buyers are increasingly evaluating cyber resilience solutions not only on recovery speed, but also on their ability to validate recoverability, prioritize restoration based on data risk, and integrate with broader security and identity controls. This ShortList reflects that shift, recognizing cyber resilience as a data-centric discipline that connects recovery, data protection, and security operations.
Not all vendors on this ShortList deliver both recovery and DSPM capabilities. Buyers should evaluate how data awareness and recovery orchestration work together across platforms.
Threshold Criteria
Constellation considers the following criteria for these solutions:
Core Capabilities
- Secure backup and recovery
Provides reliable, encrypted, and immutable backup with the ability to restore data, applications, and systems after cyber incidents. - Ransomware and cyberattack recovery support
Supports recovery from ransomware and destructive attacks, including clean restore points and malware-aware recovery workflows. - Recovery orchestration and automation
Enables coordinated recovery processes across infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments. - Recoverability validation and testing
Supports testing, validation, and verification of backups and recovery processes to ensure operational readiness. - Visibility into protected data and assets
Provides visibility into what data and systems are protected and how they map to business services and applications. - Integration with security and IT operations tools
Integrates with security, identity, and IT operations platforms to support coordinated incident response and recovery.
Differentiated Capabilities
- Data sensitivity and exposure awareness
Incorporates data classification, sensitivity analysis, or DSPM-aligned capabilities to understand which data carries the highest business and regulatory risk. - Recovery prioritization based on data and business risk
Supports prioritizing restoration based on data criticality, exposure risk, and business impact rather than infrastructure alone. - Blast-radius and impact analysis
Assesses potential data exposure and downstream impact to inform recovery decisions and post-incident remediation. - Policy-driven and governed recovery workflows
Enables role-based controls, approvals, and auditability for recovery actions. - Platform convergence and extensibility
Demonstrates progress toward a unified platform that connects data protection, security insights, and resilience operations.
The Constellation ShortList
Constellation evaluates more than 30 solutions categorized in this market. This Constellation ShortList is determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects market share and internal research.
- BIGID
- COHESITY
- COMMVAULT
- CYERA
- DRUVA
- RUBRIK
- VEEAM
Frequency of Evaluation
Each Constellation ShortList is updated at least once per year. Updates may occur after six months if deemed necessary.
Evaluation Services
Constellation clients can work with the analyst and research team to conduct a more thorough discussion of this Constellation ShortList. Constellation can also provide guidance in vendor selection and contract negotiation.