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granting them read and write permissions across systems of record. Employees can deploy their own agents inside applications such as Salesforce, GitHub, Atlassian and ServiceNow, oſten without central oversight. Tese agents behave like fully authorised non-human identities, capable of modifying or deleting data at machine speed. For UK channel partners, the implications are significant.


Customers are adopting agentic tools far faster than they adopted SaaS or public cloud. According to HYCU, legal firms, traditionally cautious about cloud adoption, are now deploying agents across their estates because the competitive pressure to accelerate cognitive work outweighs the perceived risk. Developers are using AI to generate and commit code at unprecedented volume, transforming Git repositories into high-velocity systems of record. Te boundary of risk has moved from infrastructure to identity and now to the agent itself and traditional governance models built for human speed cannot keep up. HYCU’s response is to expand the definition of data protection


into what it calls AI resilience. Te company is introducing a new platform, HYCU aiR, designed to give organisations visibility into their agentic landscape and the ability to recover from agent-driven incidents. Te first component is AirGraph, a free discovery and visualisation tool that maps SaaS applications, agents, identities and their interconnections. It shows which agents are touching which systems, what permissions they hold and where critical risks exist. For channel partners, AirGraph offers a way to start conversations


with customers who may not realise how many agents are already operating inside their environment. It highlights unsanctioned agents, shadow applications and high-risk OAuth scopes. It also connects directly to HYCU’s existing integrations, allowing partners to enable protection for systems such as GitHub, Jira, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Confluence as soon as risks are identified. Te company emphasises that this is not a pivot away from traditional data protection but an expansion of it. SaaS systems still need to be backed up, but now the threat model includes agents capable of deleting data faster than any human could respond. HYCU is also extending its protection coverage. Te company


announced general availability for Azure DevOps backup, completing what it describes as “Git complete” protection across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps. Tis matters for UK partners supporting soſtware-driven organisations, where source code, pipelines, artefacts and configuration files are critical assets. Te company argues that daily backups are no longer sufficient for these workloads. With AI-generated code accelerating development cycles, customers may need protection intervals as short as 30 minutes to avoid losing significant work. HYCU acknowledges that not all SaaS platforms support continuous data protection, but it expects industry pressure to push vendors toward more granular change tracking. Another major development is HYCU’s introduction of


R-Serve, a continuous access layer that allows customers to view and retrieve data even if the underlying SaaS provider or cloud region experiences an outage. Tis is particularly relevant for UK organisations that rely on platforms hosted on AWS or other hyperscale cloud environments. If a region goes down, customers may lose access to critical documentation, workflows or IP. R-Serve provides secure, read-only access to protected data


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“The company’s early mission was to make data protection as simple as turning on an iPhone backup.”


stored in customer-controlled infrastructure. HYCU has already launched this capability for iManage, widely used across legal firms, and is preparing to release it for Confluence. For channel partners, this offers a new resilience service to support customers concerned about cloud dependency and regulatory requirements such as DORA. Te most ambitious part of HYCU’s strategy is its use of


backup data as a source of intelligence. Te company argues that backups contain a complete historical ledger of system activity, including logs, metadata and object-level changes. By applying natural language queries and agentic analysis to this data, HYCU aiR allows customers to ask questions such as what a specific user deleted in the past 30 days or whether sensitive data exists in attachments across multiple applications. Te platform can generate activity reports, highlight anomalous behaviour and show whether deleted items are recoverable. Tis approach turns backup from a passive insurance policy


into an active governance tool. Security teams, not just backup administrators, can use the data to investigate insider risk, track agent driſt or support HR ofoarding processes. HYCU provides pre-built agents for common use cases and allows customers to create their own. Te company sees this as a way to unify capabilities that previously required multiple expensive tools, including DSPM, data classification, UEBA and governance layers for identity platforms such as Entra ID and Okta. For the UK channel, HYCU’s evolution presents both


opportunity and challenge. Partners will need to help customers understand the risks introduced by agentic systems and the importance of protecting SaaS platforms that have become de facto backends for AI workflows. Tey will also need to guide customers through new expectations around backup frequency, cross-application visibility and continuous access. HYCU’s tools offer a way to differentiate services, particularly for MSPs building resilience offerings or supporting regulated sectors such as finance and legal. AI is amplifying both productivity and risk, and traditional data


protection models are no longer sufficient. HYCU believes it can help the channel navigate this by combining discovery, protection, recovery and intelligence into a single platform. Whether the market agrees will depend on how quickly customers recognise the scale of the challenge and how effectively partners can translate that into actionable resilience strategies.


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