Topic · 8 articles
Zero Trust
Per-operation authorization, ABAC, and the data pillar of Zero Trust architecture.
Spans Threat Brief, Federal & Defense, RackTop Perspective and Cyberstorage Explainer.
INC ransomware is stealing the identity layer, not just the perimeter
A pair of SonicWall SMA 1000 vulnerabilities gives attackers root on the VPN appliance, and INC ransomware is using that access to read passwords off the wire, copy live session databases, and lift MFA seeds. When credentials are stolen rather than bypassed, every login that follows is authentic, and only file activity still shows the attack.
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Sharing without surrender: NATO’s data strategy and the storage layer
NATO’s Data Strategy for the Alliance sets a 2030 target: federated data sharing across the Alliance while every ally keeps control of its own data. Sharing and sovereignty at once is not a networking problem. It is a mandate for enforcement that lives where the data lives.
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Two exabytes, and no one agrees who owns it: the AI World Cup and the data layer
The 2026 World Cup is projected to generate roughly 90 petabytes of tournament data, and some two exabytes overall. Almost none of it is rows in a database. The harder problem is not storing it: ownership is a bundle of contractual rights, and only the data layer can prove who actually touched what.
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The breach that does not trip the alarm
Ransomware is loud. Data theft is quiet. A credentialed insider or a patient attacker can read sensitive files for months while every dashboard stays green, because nothing is watching the data itself. Data Centric Zero Trust and Cyberstorage exist to change that.
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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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Zero Trust reaches the data pillar
What Zero Trust security is, where it came from, and how the CISA and DoD Zero Trust Maturity Models differ, who each applies to, and why both converge on the data pillar.
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Your security stack watches everything except the data
Endpoints, networks, identities, email, cloud posture: modern security programs instrument all of it. The one thing almost nobody instruments is the file data attackers are actually after.
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CUI lives in files. Protect it there.
Controlled Unclassified Information is overwhelmingly unstructured: drawings, specs, contract documents on file shares. CMMC compliance increasingly comes down to whether you can label, control, and account for those files, which is exactly what data labeling and ABAC at the storage layer deliver.
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