Insight 2024: NetApp Makes Data More Resilient

NetApp, Inc. announced enhancements to its portfolio of cyber resiliency offerings to strengthen security for our customers. With these new features, it continues to innovate as the most secure storage on the planet.

It is announcing the availability of its Ontap Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI) solution, with 99% accuracy for detecting ransomware threats. Customers 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 with the most accurate storage level security possible. Because ARP/AI uses ML to identify threats, the company will consistently release new models, and customers can non-disruptively update those models, independent of Ontap updates, to defend vs. the latest ransomware variants and maintain the highest standards of data protection.

The solution was recently tested and validated by SE Labs, an independently owned and run testing company that assesses security products and services, which awarded ARP/AI a AAA rating for its strong ability to detect ransomware with 99% accuracy and no false positives in a simulation of real-world operating environments.

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 and GM for data services. “Data is the life blood of business and needs to be protected vs. malicious actors from both within and outside the organization. storage systems are the last line of defense vs. a cybersecurity incident and NetApp takes that as a responsibility to provide the most secure storage on the planet.“