Fenix24 Grows Global Cybersecurity Business with Breach Recovery Guarantee
Fenix24 is recognized as the world's leading cyber breach recovery company, thanks to the deep security knowledge of its experts combined with robust prevention and protection capabilities, as well as a recovery guarantee. Together, these aspects deliver the most comprehensive cyber resilience program available today.
Restoring IT systems and retrieving lost, encrypted data is where Fenix24 truly differentiates itself from its competitors. Fenix24 doesn't just clean up after a breach. It rebuilds, re-engineers, and hardens IT environments better than before.
Operating as the " World's First Civilian Cybersecurity Force ," Fenix24's cyber warriors treat recovery like a combat mission—rapid, repeatable, highly disciplined, and integrated with prevention strategies. When every minute counts, Fenix24 delivers recovery of impacted systems often in days, not weeks or months. Data Backup Expertise Differentiates Fenix24 in the Marketplace
The continued rapid advancement of modern threat actors makes no system of resistance foolproof, according to John Anthony Smith, Founder and Chief Security Officer of Fenix24. He asserts that at some point, an organization will be attacked—so be prepared to respond.
Smith says the good news is that post-breach recovery can be assured with minimal operational downtime. This is accomplished through the proper orchestration of immutable data backup technology.
"Data backup technology is your primary weapon of cyber defense against threat actors, including the actions by people inside the organization, whether intentional or not," Smith explained.
In fact, if a customer uses Fenix24's managed data backups, Fenix24 guarantees recovery—with no additional costs. This is an unmatched pledge among modern cybersecurity providers. Securitas Summa: A Comprehensive Program of Cyber Resistance and Recovery
Securitas Summa is Fenix24's comprehensive cybersecurity offering that stitches everything together. Designed with proprietary knowledge about today's advanced threat actor behavior, Securitas Summa is where recovery isn't the end, but rather, a jumpstart to long-term security. It's where the magic happens and Fenix24's four "battalions" come together: Athena7 : IT security assessments, strategy, and planning.
: IT security assessments, strategy, and planning. Grypho5 : Ongoing, security-based management.
: Ongoing, security-based management. Argos99 : Expert insights into data, assets, and infrastructure.
: Expert insights into data, assets, and infrastructure. Fenix24: Ransomware rapid response, remediation, and recovery.
Integral to Fenix24's offerings, the battalions have developed a battle-tested disaster recovery playbook—refined across thousands of breach incidents, including many affecting Fortune 500 companies. Moreover, Fenix24 teams can deploy in less than an hour of receiving notification of an incident, including legal, forensic, IT, and cybersecurity experts working in sync from the outset. Success Channels Global Expansion
Fenix24 is currently operating in 93 countries, having expanded into Europe and Asia. Further expansion is planned in 2025, including more acquisitions and business partnerships to accelerate the company's steady growth.
The acquisition of appNovi, the first Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) software company, in April 2025 provides Fenix24 with unparalleled visibility into application dependency mapping, including production infrastructure and virtual and cloud environments integrated with comprehensive asset tracking. This strategic acquisition complements Fenix24's recent acquisition of vArmour, the leading provider of Application Relationship Management software.
Supporting the Argos99 battalion, vArmour has been at the forefront of cybersecurity, helping large enterprises better understand and reduce their attack surface by highlighting and mapping relationships as well as dependencies between applications.
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