NetApp Fights Ransomware in Real-Time with Built-In Artificial Intelligence on Enterprise Storage and Enhanced Cyber-Resiliency Solutions
March 05 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Amid increasing ransomware threats, new
capabilities expand NetApp leadership in providing the quickest
response and recovery to cyber disasters
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data
infrastructure company, today announced cyber-resiliency
capabilities that will equip customers to better protect and
recover their data in the face of ransomware threats. NetApp is one
of the first to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning (ML) directly into enterprise primary storage to fight
ransomware in real-time. The NetApp cyber-resiliency capabilities
protect both primary and secondary data for organizations whether
it is stored on-premises or in the cloud.
Cybercriminals are increasingly aiming ransomware attacks at
critical infrastructure and supply chains where operational
disruptions can cost millions of dollars, according to Forrester.
As a result, 87 percent of C-suite and board-level executives
ranked ransomware as a high, or the top, priority for their
organization, according to the NetApp 2023 Data Complexity report.
When cybercriminals breach perimeters, networks, and identities
storage becomes the last line of defense for organizations’ most
critical data. With the threat of ransomware looming, organizations
need solutions that not only protect their data but also quickly
recover lost data and return to normal operations. NetApp is
updating its cyber-resiliency solutions and leveraging the power of
AI to give customers confidence that their data will be safe and
accessible when they need it.
“NetApp is taking an aggressive and proactive approach to
protecting our customers’ data against cyber threats using
artificial intelligence. We are the first storage vendor to
explicitly and financially guarantee our data storage offerings
against ransomware,” said Mignona Cote, CSO at NetApp. “Today, we
are furthering that leadership with updates that make defending
data comprehensive, continuous, and simple for our customers.”
NetApp is focused on designing data storage and management
systems that maximize data protection and security while meeting
data governance and compliance standards, with new updates that
include:
- ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with Artificial
Intelligence (ARP/AI) will spearhead the next generation of
real-time enterprise storage ransomware protection, giving
increased accuracy and performance required to detect and mitigate
new, more sophisticated cyber threats. NetApp pioneered autonomous
real-time detection of ransomware directly in primary enterprise
storage three years ago. Now, NetApp will be leading the charge to
use adaptive AI/ML models built directly into enterprise primary
storage to look at file-level signals in real-time to detect even
the newest ransomware attacks with planned 99%+ precision and
recall. NetApp will be offering the first technology preview of
ARP/AI within the next quarter.
- NetApp BlueXP Ransomware Protection, now in public
preview, provides a single control plane to intelligently
coordinate and execute an end-to-end, workload-centric ransomware
defense. Customers can now identify and protect critical workload
data with a single click, accurately and automatically detect and
respond to a potential attack, and recover workloads within
minutes, safeguarding their valuable data and minimizing costly
disruption.
- Application-Aware Ransomware Protection via NetApp
SnapCenter 5.0 offers immutable ransomware protection for
applications. SnapCenter will now apply NetApp's leading ransomware
protection technologies, previously used with unstructured data, to
application-consistent backup. SnapCenter 5.0 includes support for
key ONTAP features like tamperproof Snapshot copy locking, SnapLock
protected volumes, and SnapMirror Business Continuity to enable
more robust data protection for applications and virtual machines.
SnapCenter 5.0 supports protection of applications on-premises with
NetApp AFF, ASA, and FAS, as well as in the cloud.
- NetApp BlueXP Disaster Recovery, now generally
available, offers seamless integration with VMware infrastructure
and provides storage options for both on-premises and major public
cloud environments. This comprehensive solution eliminates the need
for separate standby disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure,
reducing costs. With NetApp BlueXP disaster recovery, failover and
failback processes are simplified, allowing smooth transitions from
on-premises VMware infrastructure to the public cloud or to an
on-premises data center.
- NetApp Keystone Ransomware Recovery Guarantee extends
NetApp’s current Ransomware Recovery Guarantee to our leading
storage-as-a-service offering, NetApp Keystone. With this
guarantee, NetApp will warrant snapshot data recovery in the event
of a ransomware attack. If snapshot data copies can’t be recovered
through NetApp, we will offer compensation*.
“Today’s cybersecurity teams face the monumental task of
protecting their companies’ data from ever-evolving threats,
especially ransomware,” said Archana Venkatraman, Research
Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC. “NetApp’s approach of
delivering a secure, unified storage infrastructure makes storage
foundational for ransomware protection and reduces the burden on
cybersecurity teams. Companies looking to fortify their cyber
resiliency and shifting protection left will increasingly look to
vendors that take a secure-by-design approach and develop unified
storage and data services.”
“Using NetApp in our Advanced Technology Center, we
significantly simplified our replication process for VMware virtual
machines and their underlying datastores to meet or exceed recovery
benchmarks,” said Derek Elbert, Solutions Architect at WWT. “With
NetApp’s solutions, we successfully established the recovery
policies for cloud volumes workloads or virtual machines with no
existing DR strategy, managing everything through NetApp BlueXP.
This transforms how we operate disaster recovery for VMware.”
“To store sensitive genomics and health data, we have to use the
right technology with layers of security built in,” said Mark
Cowley, Deputy Director at Children’s Cancer Institute. “With
NetApp, we can be very confident that we are sharing the right data
only to authorized researchers. The last line of defense is your
weakest web-based system, so we’ve implemented role-based access
and added resilience to all of our tools.”
The latest cyber resiliency updates from NetApp empower
organizations to proactively address cybersecurity threats in
complex hybrid and multicloud environments, leveraging AI to
identify threats and prevent disruptions to their operations.
To learn more about the NetApp cyber-resiliency offerings visit:
https://www.netapp.com/cyber-resilience/
*Specific terms and conditions will apply. Customers must apply
for coverage by the guarantee.
Additional Resources
- The Most Secure Storage on the Planet Gets Even Better
- Unveiling NetApp SnapCenter 5.0
About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, combining
unified data storage, integrated data services, and CloudOps
solutions to turn a world of disruption into opportunity for every
customer. NetApp creates silo-free infrastructure, harnessing
observability and AI to enable the industry’s best data management.
As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in
the world’s biggest clouds, our data storage delivers seamless
flexibility. In addition, our data services create a data advantage
through superior cyber resilience, governance, and application
agility. Our CloudOps solutions provide continuous optimization of
performance and efficiency through observability and AI. No matter
the data type, workload, or environment, with NetApp you can
transform your data infrastructure to realize your business
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