Recovery tool profile
Gambit Security review: validating recoverability with Balens
Recovery posture validation
Short answer
Gambit Security's Balens maps backup coverage, drift and healthy restore points and produces recovery evidence for DORA, NIS2 and SOX. It scores 2.2 and ranks 5 of 5 on this question because it validates recovery rather than rebuilding infrastructure, and publishes no clouds or recovery targets.
Vendor facts read September and October 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial assessment; we did not run the products.
Which incidents does Gambit Security document recovering from?
A filled brick means the vendor's own pages describe recovering from that scenario. It is not a test result.
0 of 3 scenarios documented
- Outage: Not documented. Validates recoverability; recovery itself is left to other tools.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Bad change: Partial. Drift detection and healthy restore point discovery, without a restore of its own.
Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Region loss: Not documented. Rebuilding in another region or account is not described.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
What does Gambit Security bring back?
- Product
- Balens, described as the autonomous resilience platform, maps, controls and proves recoverability across cloud, IaC and backups in one live view.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Capabilities
- Cyber resilience posture management, vendor-agnostic backup coverage mapping, infrastructure drift detection, healthy restore point discovery, immutability validation and recovery gaps by disruption type.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Reporting for DORA, NIS2 and SOX, and compliance evidence for NIST CSF.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Agentless, with deployment stated at 15 minutes.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Company
- Emerged from stealth on 25 February 2026 with $61M in seed and Series A funding from Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Cyberstarts. Founders Alon Gromakov, Sa'ar Elias and May Kogan.
Source: Gambit Security: out of stealth announcement · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Recovery
- Gambit's pages describe mapping and validating recoverability; they do not describe rebuilding infrastructure or running failover drills.
Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026
What recovery targets does Gambit Security publish?
Not published
No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Which clouds does Gambit Security document?
- AWS: Not documented
- Azure: Not documented
- Google Cloud: Not documented
Named clouds are not published on Gambit's site. Its AWS Marketplace listing is a SaaS product deployed on AWS.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026
Does recovery produce infrastructure as code?
Gambit does not describe rebuilding infrastructure, so recovery does not produce code.
Restore as code is not scored on this site; see How scores work.
What does Gambit Security cost?
- Pricing
- AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract, $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform, with 24- and 36-month options; the unit is not defined. Full refund within 30 days, per the listing. No price on the vendor site.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery
- SaaS, agentless; REST API and MCP
How does Gambit Security score on each criterion?
| Criterion | Weight | Score | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuild scope | 20% | 2.5 Lowest in set | Maps cloud, IaC and backups and their interdependencies, but does not describe rebuilding infrastructure, and named clouds are not published. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Recovery orchestration | 15% | 1.0 Lowest in set | No recovery workflow is described; Balens maps and validates recoverability. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Region and account loss | 15% | 1.0 Lowest in set | Shows recovery gaps by disruption type, but rebuilding in another region or account is not described. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Bad-change rollback | 15% | 4.5 | Infrastructure drift detection and healthy restore point discovery; the restore itself is left to other tools. Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Published recovery targets | 10% | 0.0 Lowest in set | No RTO or RPO figure is published. Source: Gambit Security: Balens · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Recovery testing | 10% | 3.0 Tied lowest | States it validates recovery paths in real time, but does not describe running recovery tests or failover drills. Source: Gambit Security: out of stealth announcement · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Data inside the rebuild | 10% | 2.5 | Maps backup coverage across vendors and validates immutability and restore points, but does not back up data itself. Source: Gambit Security home page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Pricing transparency | 5% | 4.0 Lowest in set | AWS Marketplace lists a 12-month contract at $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform without defining the unit; the vendor site shows no price. Source: AWS Marketplace: Balens by Gambit · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
Editorial assessment, 0 to 10 per criterion, one decimal. Weighted total = sum of (score x weight) / 100, shown to one decimal. It measures fit for getting cloud infrastructure back quickly and completely after an outage, a bad change or a region loss. It is not a measure of overall product quality.
Where does Gambit Security score well, and where does it fall short?
Scores well
- Maps backup coverage, drift and restore points across vendors in one view.
- Built for recovery evidence under DORA, NIS2 and SOX.
Falls short
Lowest or tied lowest in this set on rebuild scope, recovery orchestration, region and account loss, published recovery targets, recovery testing and pricing transparency.
- Does not rebuild infrastructure or protect data itself.
- Named clouds and recovery targets are not published, and the only price is a $1,000,000 AWS Marketplace contract with an undefined unit.
How does Gambit Security compare head to head?
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Frequently asked questions
What does Gambit Security cost?
AWS Marketplace: 12-month contract, $1,000,000 per unit for the Gambit Platform, with 24- and 36-month options; the unit is not defined. Full refund within 30 days, per the listing. No price on the vendor site.
Does Gambit Security publish an RTO or RPO?
No RTO or RPO figure is published.
Which clouds does Gambit Security cover for recovery?
AWS: not documented on the pages reviewed. Azure: not documented on the pages reviewed. Google Cloud: not documented on the pages reviewed. Named clouds are not published on Gambit's site. Its AWS Marketplace listing is a SaaS product deployed on AWS.