Innovation Insight for Cyberstorage Solutions to Protect Unstructured Data Against Ransomware

This report, Innovation Insight for Cyberstorage Solutions to Protect Unstructured Data Against Ransomware, was published by Gartner, Inc. on October 8, 2021
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Key Findings
• Most ransomware attacks target unstructured datasets on network shares, making centralized file storage solutions an attractive target for encryption and/or data exfiltration of large amounts of data.
• Traditional NA) systems hosting file shares are not equipped to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from ransomware or prevent data exfiltration, as they rely on solutions outside of the storage domain.
• Cyberstorage solutions deliver a variety of capabilities to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover ransomware attacks by analyzing user, admin and data access behavior and detection of anomalies where blocking the active attack is the most important function.
• Cyberstorage solutions can be delivered natively by (new) storage vendors, or partially as a new set of features by your existing storage vendor or as an external add-on to the existing storage solution.

Cyberstorage products or solutions:
• Superna Eyeglass Ransomware Defender
• RackTop Systems BrickStor
• Prolion Cryptospyke

Vendors that offer a subset of cyberstorage features or complement the cyberstorage portfolio:
• Cohesity SmartFiles
• Continuity StorageGuard
• NetApp FPolicy
• Nutanix Files