NetApp drives resilience into secure storage
NetApp used its Insight 2024 conference this week in Las Vegas to announce enhancements to its portfolio of resiliency offerings to strengthen security.
NetApp is announcing the general availability of its NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI) solution.
The technology offers 99 percent accuracy for detecting ransomware threats.
Software development and operations teams can use ARP/AI to monitor abnormal workload activity and automatically snapshot data at the point in time of attack, so they can respond and recover faster from attacks.
In terms of architecture, ARP/AI uses machine learning to identify threats and NetApp says it will consistently release new models, while also, customers can non-disruptively update those models, independent of ONTAP updates.
BlueXP
NetApp is also releasing updates to the BlueXP ransomware protection service for proactive data security and optimized protection and recovery.
BlueXP now integrates with Splunk SIEM to simplify and accelerate threat response by informing stakeholders across an organization’s security operations.
BlueXP ransomware protection now leverages AI-driven data classification capabilities to ensure the most sensitive data is protected at the highest possible levels. BlueXP also has new User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) integrations to identify malicious activity by user behavior in addition to the ARP/AI-provided filesystem signals.
“NetApp is committed to keeping our customers’ data secure,” said Gagan Gulati, VP & GM for data services at NetApp. “Data is the life blood of business and needs to be protected against malicious actors from both within and outside the organization. Data storage systems are the last line of defense against a cybersecurity incident and NetApp takes that as a responsibility to provide the most secure storage on the planet.”
Phil Goodwin, research vice president, IDC has stated that NetApp is committed not only to data integrity, but also to maintaining customer business continuity in restoring data in minutes or even seconds.
Goodwin says that security (specifically around ransomware protection) has been steadily increasing in visibility among top business leaders which is driving IT teams to look for technology built with a ‘secure-by-design’ philosophy.