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Practitioner Guides

Hands-on guidance for storage, security, and SOC teams: NAS hardening checklists, file activity telemetry for the SOC, and behavior-based ransomware defense.

October 14, 2026•7 min read

Body-worn camera storage: retention, chain of custody, and CJIS

Body-worn camera video is the largest and fastest-growing data set most departments own. Here is how to store it for years, prove who touched each file, keep it inside CJIS controls, and get it back after a ransomware attack.

October 14, 2026•6 min read

CJIS audit logging requirements for file storage

The CJIS audit controls read directly against the storage holding CJI. Here is what each one asks for, what an auditor will want to see, and where file shares usually fall short.

October 14, 2026•3 min read

CJIS storage checklist: 15 questions for any vendor holding your CJI

No storage product is CJIS certified, so a vendor’s CJIS page tells you little. These fifteen questions turn the CJIS v6.1 controls into answers you can check, and we answer every one of them for BrickStor SP.

September 23, 2026•6 min read

When every storage product claims Cyberstorage: seven tests that tell them apart

Gartner expects every storage product to include Cyberstorage capabilities by 2029. When the label is universal, a datasheet stops telling buyers anything. Seven live tests for a proof of concept still can.

August 9, 2026•5 min read

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.

June 30, 2026•5 min read

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.

May 20, 2026•5 min read

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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