Qumulo Secure Multi-Layered Approach Designed to Protect Data Across Multiple Points of Vulnerability

Qumulo, Inc. announced a corporate security initiative Simply Secure, a multi-layered approach designed to protect data across multiple points of vulnerability.

The company’s Simply Secure initiative is meant to help organizations minimize the risk of business disruption and protect their data from theft or loss with a complete suite of security features that continue to harden over time, all-inclusive with its Qumulo subscription, without additional cost for future releases.

The rise in cyber threats in recent years is creating dire consequences for businesses: multi-million dollar ransom payments, days or weeks in disruption of operations, and potential loss of valuable data sets. Not only that, cyber attacks which become public often leave behind permanent reputational damage. While most organizations understand and respect the risk of poor security posture, many are strapped for cycles, time, and expertise to build adequate defenses around their unstructured data.

The company is meeting its customers anywhere – edge, core, and in the cloud – with a holistic approach to security, making it simple for customers to protect their data from ransomware attacks, data theft, and data destruction. The firm helps customers ensure lighting-fast recovery and also helps proactively detect and prevent anomalies, so organizations and end users can simply secure their sensitive data. Customers are granted access to each new security feature every 2 weeks, which is available through non-disruptive software upgrades, increasing the value of Qumulo clusters over time.

“Qumulo’s focus on radical simplicity means it’s taken an approach to security that makes it as easy as possible for customers to protect their data everywhere it’s stored,” said Kiran Bhageshpur, CTO.

The company is constantly developing new and enhancing existing features to provide the most robust security possible.

Recent releases add 5 layers to storage security for data protection, including:

• Multi-tenancy VLAN isolation: Organizations can use VLANs to isolate administrative interfaces from their file system clients, such that the general network population cannot reach the interfaces. This adds an additional guarantee of network protection, while helping consolidate multiple use cases on a single cluster, resulting in potential cost savings.

• Single sign-on and access tokens: Cluster administrators can eliminate the need for sensitive user passwords when logging into the Qumulo administrator UI or API since user credentials are prime targets for theft by cyber attackers.
• NFSv4.1 Kerberos authentication and encryption: All data is encrypted before transmitting across networks, preventing any bad actor that intercepts the data from understanding it in plain text.
• FIPS 140-2 certification of the firm’s encryption: Now, customers with FIPS requirements can maintain compliance and independently verify that the firm’s data-at-rest encryption meets the standards set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Customers who don’t require FIPS certification can rest assured their data is protected by the highest standards.
• OpenMetrics API provides telemetry data to 3rd party monitoring and alerting systems, so organizations can proactively detect and respond to anomalies at risk of disrupting operations such as an attack-in-progress.

“Trust is mission critical when it comes to security,” said Kathy Ahuja, VP, information security. “That’s why we’ve built a security posture with FIPS 140-2 accreditation and enhanced encryption that provides the greatest level of protection for our cryptographic modules. Our customers know they can trust Qumulo with their data. And as cybercriminals continue to advance their own breach strategies, we’re well prepared to continue to improve our security measures to match and defeat the complexities of these attacks.”

Resources:
Blog: How Qumulo’s Built-in Security Approach Makes Your Unstructured Data Simply Secure