Case Study: Leading Regional Bank achieves rapid ransomware recovery and near-zero data loss with Zerto

Regional Bank Beats Ransomware and Strengthens Disaster Recovery with Zerto

A midwestern regional bank that provides retail and commercial financial services faced recurring threats — tornadoes, floods and ransomware — that exposed limitations in its disaster recovery. Although it had two geographically dispersed data centers, the bank relied on nightly Veeam backups that could take 24–72 hours to restore and accepted hours of data loss; it needed a faster, simpler, auditable DR approach to protect customers, maintain compliance, and avoid downtime.

After deploying Zerto, the bank gained continuous data protection and near-instant recovery: a flooded branch was restored in 15–20 seconds, and when ransomware hit three times in one month they failed back in 3–5 minutes to a point five seconds before the attack with virtually no data loss. Zerto also cut compliance testing from days to about an hour, lowered costs and training overhead versus competitors, and enabled smooth future migrations while keeping production running with minimal disruption.