“As we embark into Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re excited to help enterprises better understand how to incorporate a cyber-centric, recovery-focused strategy with our InfiniSafe capabilities into their overall cybersecurity approach,” said Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat. “Cyberattacks have evolved to increasingly target enterprise storage infrastructure. However, the combination of cyber resilience and cybersecurity closes the gap and vastly improves the ability to mitigate the impact of cyberattacks, especially ransomware. Broader awareness of best practices in cyber resilience and cyber recovery will be one of the crowning achievements of this month dedicated to cybersecurity.”
Protecting data is one of the most critical actions an IT team must do in their data centre today. Expectations for restoring data and backing up data at multi-petabyte scale have changed. IT teams need to increase next-generation data protection capabilities. There needs to be data integrity and high reliability with 100% availability, which is what Infinidat provides. Best practices require an enterprise to ensure data validity and near-instantaneous recovery of primary storage and backup repositories, regardless of the size. This accelerates digital disaster recovery when a cyberattack happens.
“Cybersecurity is established as a board-level priority. Given that, it is the data that attackers are after. CIOs and CISOs have begun to critically evaluate the cyber resilience of their organisation's enterprise storage implementations. With this in mind, the need for cyber resilience has established new table-stakes criteria within the storage infrastructure. Strategic planning for capabilities, like Infinidat's InfiniSafe Automated Cyber Protection that helps to mitigate data loss and downtime resulting from a cyber incident, has become critical,” said Krista Macomber, Research Director, Cybersecurity at The Futurum Group.
“We’re seeing a growing focus on cyber resilience and rapid recovery in enterprise data infrastructure, especially against threats like ransomware,” stated Bob Elliott, VP Strategic Alliances, at Mainline Information Systems. “Adopting a recovery-first strategy helps protect businesses from massive cyberattacks. As IT leaders recognise the importance of next-gen data protection, we expect increased adoption of these solutions. In today’s security-driven landscape, boosting cyber resilience is essential for safeguarding storage systems.”
Core pillars of next generation data protection in a cyber-first architecture include: immutable snapshots, logical air-gapping, a fenced forensic environment, and near-instantaneous cyber recovery. These dimensions of cyber resilience are available within Infinidat’s core storage operating system. Moreover, the cyber resilient capabilities that complement, utilise, extend and enable these pillars include cyber detection and automated cyber protection.
InfiniSafe® – The Answer for Enterprise-grade Cyber Resilience
Infinidat’s award-winning InfiniSafe suite provides extensive cyber resilience capabilities, including InfiniSafe Cyber Detection and InfiniSafe Automated Cyber Protection (ACP) along with the stack of all the core pillars of next-generation data protection. InfiniSafe provides secure, end-to-end capabilities to orchestrate with existing security solutions to detect, contain, mitigate and recover from a cyberattack.
InfiniSafe ACP is an early-warning system that is seamlessly integrated into an enterprise’s existing cybersecurity applications and systems. ACP triggers creating immutable snapshots when an event or threat is detected. Detecting a threat before it has an opportunity to propagate is key to reducing the threat window.
To get a known clean copy of data after an attack, InfiniSafe Cyber Detection is needed to validate the integrity of the data, using powerful AI and ML-based scanning engines. Comprehensive machine learning detects ransomware and malware, using 200+ content analytics points with up to 99.99% accuracy.
In addition, designed to deliver industry-leading application performance, InfiniBox®, InfiniBox™ SSA and InfiniGuard® are used extensively as backup targets for many data protection scenarios, backing up critical data assets across applications and virtual and containerised infrastructures. Whether it’s for primary storage or secondary storage for backup and data protection, Infinidat has all the use cases covered with InfiniBox as a target and InfiniGuard as a purpose-built backup appliance.
