Topic · 9 articles
NAS & File Shares
Securing the file infrastructure where unstructured data actually lives.
Spans Threat Brief, Practitioner Guide, Cyberstorage Explainer and Sector Spotlight.
Gunra ransomware: a six-agency warning that ends at your file shares
A joint advisory from the FBI, CISA, NSA, and international partners details how Gunra ransomware moves from a firewall CVE to file servers over SMB, stealing documents and databases before encrypting. The advisory is a case study in why NAS ransomware protection has to live at the storage layer.
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NAS ransomware protection: catch the attack by how it behaves
Real NAS ransomware protection is not a signature list or a nightly backup. It is user behavior analytics on every file operation, active defense that terminates a hostile session in under a second, and a cybervault that survives even administrative compromise.
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The app was trusted. The files behind it were the target: Oracle breaches and the data layer
A 2026 wave of attacks against Oracle enterprise applications, including a PeopleSoft zero-day behind the NAIC data dump and an E-Business Suite flaw under active exploitation this week, keeps ending the same way: mass reads of files and regulated records through a trusted path, with no encryption and no obvious alarm.
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What Cyberstorage is, and why it exists
Cyberstorage builds security and recovery into the data storage layer itself. Here is what that means, the thirty-year assumption that made the category necessary, why Gartner named it in 2021, and how it differs from backup and traditional NAS.
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Ransomware protection at the storage layer: how it actually works
What real ransomware protection looks like at the layer attacks actually touch: the visibility, detection, policy, response, recovery, and evidence chain, explained link by link.
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Critical infrastructure’s quiet exposure: the IT file share
Utilities invest heavily in OT security while the IT side (engineering diagrams, SCADA documentation, customer data on ordinary file servers) remains the softer target attackers actually take.
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File activity telemetry: what your SOC actually needs from storage
Most NAS audit feeds were designed for compliance checkboxes, not threat detection. Here is what detection-grade file activity telemetry looks like, how to wire it into SIEM and SOAR workflows without drowning the license, and the two tests that prove the integration is real.
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Most breach headlines are data-layer warnings
Strip the logos and dollar figures from this year’s breach headlines and the same pattern remains: attackers reached unstructured data and the storage layer could not see or stop them.
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Hardening NAS against ransomware: a practitioner checklist
A working checklist for storage and security teams: seven areas to verify on your file infrastructure so an attack on a share is detected and contained in progress, not just recovered from later.
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