Your Network Is Down. Your Operations Are Not.
Traditional backups become evidence when ransomware strikes. Ironclad® Pulse is active-active disaster recovery—a fortified intelligence hub that keeps your critical operations running while your primary systems are compromised.
The False Security Trap
Why Traditional Backups Fail When Your Need Them Most
You’ve invested in backup systems. You run regular tests. You feel protected.
But modern ransomware attacks your backups first.
When attackers strike, they don’t just encrypt your production systems—they corrupt your backups, delete your snapshots, and turn your disaster recovery infrastructure into forensic evidence. The average recovery time is 21 days. For most businesses, that’s a death sentence.
And the threat doesn’t end with ransomware—nation‑state APTs burrow into utility networks to map critical infrastructure and maintain persistent access, while industries like biotech and high‑tech manufacturing face escalating APT campaigns designed to steal the IP that shapes global economic advantage.
The hard truth for disaster recovery: If you spin up an infected backup, you’re just re-loading the virus that killed you. Ironclad Pulse ensures you never fail over to a compromised environment.
Disaster Recovery For Critical Infrastructure
- Utilities & water treatment
- Manufacturing & industrial
- Energy & power generation
- Municipal infrastructure
Disaster Recovery For Enterprise
- Healthcare systems
- Financial services
- Professional services
- Mid-market enterprises
The Ironclad Pulse Solution
Active-Active Operational Contingency: Your Mission Never Stops
Ironclad Pulse isn’t a backup—it’s an Active-Active Operational Contingency. Inside your private, air-gapped vault, we integrate OTbase for real-time asset truth and CrunchAtlas AI for continuous threat hunting.
We don’t bloat your budget with office files. We immunize the Critical 20% of your network—SCADA systems, HMIs, Historians—that generates 100% of your operational revenue.
- Mirrored → Your critical OT systems flow to a secure air-gapped cluster in real-time
- Cataloged → OTbase maps every PLC, sensor, and controller by serial number and firmware
- Sanitized → Every byte is scanned and threat-hunted before it enters the vault
- Hunted → CrunchAtlas AI continuously hunts for threats in the mirror
- Ready → Failover in <60 seconds to a verified clean, functional contingency
You don't recover from an attack. You outlast it–with disaster recovery that includes a verified clean environment ready in under 60 seconds.
How Ironclad Pulse Works
Layer 1
Vault
The Vault is our “clean room” for your data. Your critical core lives in a dedicated, Tier-4 secure facility with military-grade protection.
- The Mirrored Twin: We maintain a real-time, active-active twin of your production environment. If your primary site goes dark, the Vault is already running and ready to take the load.
- US-Based Infrastructure: Your data stays in our private facility—never on public cloud or foreign-owned infrastructure.
- Air-Gapped Resilience: One-way data flows ensure that once your data is in the Vault, it’s physically isolated from external ransomware.
- Tier-4 Physical Security: 24/7 environmental monitoring, biometric access, and hardened perimeter designed for mission-critical continuity.
Layer 2
The Hunt
We don’t just store your data; we interrogate it. Our operators hunt the mirror so you never have to worry about a “dirty restore.”
- Active Threat Hunting: Because we monitor a copy of your data, our hunters can stress-test threats and run forensic simulations without ever impacting your production operations.
- Enterprise-Grade Detection: Trend Micro Vision One XDR/NDR telemetry allows our SOC team to monitor every packet entering the vault in real-time.
- Clean Failover Guarantee: We ensure the environment you fail over to is cleaner than the one that went down. We hunt the malware out of the backups before you ever hit “restore.”
- Expert Oversight: Direct access to UnRavl cyber operations experts who provide high-fidelity threat briefings, not just automated alerts.
Add-On Layer
Layer 3
Visibility and Intelligence
You cannot secure what you cannot see. We provide complete visibility into your network’s blind spots.
- Flexible Assessment Options: Choose between one-time asset inventory snapshots for immediate compliance needs or continuous asset and vulnerability monitoring for real-time visibility.
- Shadow Device Detection: Automatic identification of unauthorized hardware, rogue access points, or legacy devices your IT team doesn’t know exist.
- Legacy System Protection: We map your exposures and use virtual patching in the Vault to protect legacy systems that can’t be updated.
- Credential Monitoring: Continuous monitoring for leaked employee or vendor credentials on the external web before they can be weaponized against you.
Active-Active vs. Traditional Operational Contingency
| Traditional Operational Contingency | Ironclad Pulse | |
|---|---|---|
| Protection Model | Passive snapshot storage | Active-active operational contingency |
| Failover Time | 7-21+ days | <60 seconds |
| Asset Visibility | Unknown devices on network | OTbase catalogs every OT device |
| Threat Detection | None (backups may be infected) | Continuous AI + human threat hunting |
| Data State | Backups encrypted by attacker | Data continuously sanitized |
| OT/ICS Protection | Generic IT focus | Purpose-built for SCADA, HMIs, Historians |
| Air-Gap Security | Often connected to network | Physical and logical separation |
| Business Operations | HALTED | CONTINUOUS |
| Validation | Hope it works when needed | Quarterly testing + continuous hunting |
| Recovery Confidence | Hope your last backup was clean | Know your environment is clean |
Who Needs Ironclad Pulse?
Disaster Recovery Built for Organizations That Can't Afford to Stop
Healthcare Systems
Patient care can’t wait 21 days for recovery. When ransomware hits, every hour of downtime puts lives at risk and triggers HIPAA violations. Ironclad® Pulse keeps your critical clinical systems—EHRs, imaging, lab systems—protected in a verified clean environment, ready to fail over before patient care is ever compromised.
Utilities & Water Treatment
Public safety depends on your uptime. A compromised SCADA system doesn’t just mean lost revenue—it means communities without clean water or power. Ironclad® Pulse protects the OT backbone that keeps essential services flowing, with failover fast enough to prevent public impact.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Production downtime doesn’t just hurt you—it cascades through your entire supply chain, costing partners and customers alongside your own operations. When attackers target your ERP, MES, and OT systems, traditional disaster recovery means weeks of paralysis. Ironclad® Pulse protects the operational core that keeps your lines running, with failover measured in seconds, not days.
Energy & Power Grid
Grid operators face nation-state threats daily. When attackers target your HMIs, historians, and control systems, traditional backup won’t save you—you’ll be restoring infected systems while the lights stay off. Ironclad® Pulse ensures your critical 20% is always ready to take over, clean and verified.
Mid-Market Enterprises
Organizations with 100–2,500 employees face the same threats as Fortune 500 companies—without the Fortune 500 budget. Ironclad® Pulse delivers military-grade operational continuity at a price point that makes sense, focusing protection on the systems that actually run your business.
Life Sciences
Research data can’t be recreated. Validated manufacturing can’t restart from scratch. When ransomware threatens years of R&D, clinical trials, or FDA-compliant production systems, IronClad Pulse protects your laboratory systems, batch records, and regulatory submissions in a verified clean environment—maintaining compliance, protecting intellectual property, and keeping discovery and production operational.
What Does 21 Days of Downtime
Cost Your Business?
Calculate your real risk:
- Average cost of ransomware downtime: $200,000-$500,000 per day
- Average recovery time without clean failover: 21 days
- Total exposure: $4.2M – $10.5M
Add to that:
- Lost customers who can’t wait
- Regulatory fines for data breach
- Reputational damage
- Emergency incident response fees
- Potential ransom payment (with no guarantee)
Ironclad Pulse investment: A fraction of a single day’s downtime cost.
Beyond Ransomware
Your Safety Net for Any Catastrophic Event
Ironclad Pulse doesn’t just protect against cyberattacks:
- Natural Disasters: Hurricane, flood, or fire destroys your data center
- Hardware Failure: Critical server failures during business hours
- Human Error: Accidental deletion or misconfiguration
- Supply Chain Attacks: Compromised software updates or vendors
- Insider Threats: Malicious employee actions
- Zero-Day Exploits: Unknown vulnerabilities in your infrastructure
Any disaster recovery scenario that threatens your primary systems is neutralized by having a continuously maintained, known-good failover environment.
Compliance & Regulatory Alignment
Meet Your Obligations with Confidence
Ironclad Pulse helps satisfy disaster recovery requirements for:
- HIPAA - Business continuity and operational contingency mandates
- SOC 2 – Data protection and availability controls
- PCI DSS – Secure data storage and incident response
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework – Protective and recovery functions
- ISO 27001 – Business continuity management
- State Privacy Laws – Data protection requirements (CCPA, GDPR)
Frequently Asked Questions
How much data can Ironclad Pulse protect?
We can configure vault capacity. based on your critical core. Most mid-market implementations range from 5TB to 50TB of protected data.
Do we need to replace our existing backup solution?
No. Ironclad Pulse complements your existing backups by providing an additional layer of air-gapped, threat-hunted disaster recovery protection specifically for business continuity.
How quickly can we fail over to Ironclad Pulse?
Typically under 60 seconds, depending on system complexity and preparation. We document and test the process quarterly to ensure readiness.
What happens during a failover event?
You with operations to your Ironclad Pulse environment while your primary systems are cleaned, rebuilt, or investigated. Your business continues operating from the clean room.
Is this only for ransomware protection?
No. Ironclad Pulse protects against any catastropic event: cyber attacks, hardware failures, natural disasters, human error, or supply chain compromises.
How do you ensure the vault stays clean?
Triple-layer defense, air-gap isolation, automated Trend Micro scanning, and continuous CrunchAtlas AI + human threat hunting.
What is included in the quarterly testing?
Simulated failover drills, threat intelligence reviews, data integrity validation, and updated runback documentation.
What is OTbase and why does it matter?
OTbase is our Asset Intelligence Layer that catalogs every physical device on you OT network-PLCs, sensors, controllers–by serial number and firmware. This creates an absolute baseline for integrity, ensuring we know exactly what should be in your environment and can detect anything that shouldn’t be.
Stop Operating on a Poisoned Backup
Get definitive answers about what’s missing in your disaster recovery plans—before you need to fail over and find out the hard way.