IDC Frontier says ransomware in its IDCF Cloud East Japan Region 1 has affected 495 companies and local governments using the service. The SoftBank Group subsidiary has also locked customers out of management consoles in every region while it verifies their security.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 27%
- Operator
- Operator 58%
- Investor
- Investor 15%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives45
- Confidence60
Cohesity surveyed 3,200 IT and security leaders and found 99% use AI but only 39% have recovery plans that fully cover attacks on it. Agent error is the bigger gap: 56% say they are not well prepared to recover from an agent's unintended or incorrect actions.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives80
- Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher Cohesity's Agent Resilience rolls Bedrock AI agents back to immutable recovery points, yet its product leads say emails already sent stay sent. Outside systems still need their own clean-up and tests, and the company calls its recovery-time edge intended, not measured.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher PocketOS lost its production Railway database and every volume backup on April 24 when a Cursor agent made one nine-second API call nobody requested. A postmortem traces how much was lost to settings that were in place before the agent ran.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives50
- Confidence65
The $5.08 million average comes from IBM and the $139,875 median from Verizon, one a mean and one a median across different samples, so 36 to 1 is an order of magnitude. Even discounted, the money sits in downtime.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives92
- Confidence55
The release adds Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV and Google Workspace coverage plus volume-level encryption at rest, while the anomaly detection and pre-restore malware scanning that catch a poisoned backup wait for an undated 2.1.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives75
- Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher Hubs Community Edition's bundled scripts archive the Postgres dump and the Reticulum file store. Everything between a bare host and a serving room is a rebuild you perform by hand.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives60
- Confidence38