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Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, 2023
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Gartner defines the emerging, on the rise Cyberstorage market:
“Cyberstorage offers an active defense of the storage systems and their data against cyberattacks through prevention, early detection and blocking of attacks, and aids in recovery through analytics and storage-specific recovery capabilities. Cyberstorage can be a dedicated storage solution containing all capabilities, a platform solution containing multiple products offered as an integrated solution, or independent products that add cyberspecific capabilities toward storage vendors.”
Why now?
According to Gartner, “Ransomware attacks are increasingly common and disruptive, requiring the adoption of cybersecurity tools for active defense and recovery. Although numerous solutions are available for endpoint protection, object, file system and block storage systems provide inadequate protection from malicious downloads, deletion, destruction, or encryption of data. Cyberstorage provides active defense and recovery against cyberattacks on storage systems and their data.”
Recommendations
One of the recommendations from the report states, “Review storage vendors’ cyberstorage features such as ransomware detection, blocking the attack, advanced recovery and analytics functions and improved overall security hardening into their storage products. Ask for the vendors’ roadmap and validate if they support the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework standard.”
Incorporate cyber-resilient products, like cyberstorage, as an additional layer or protection to your backup and disaster recovery investments.
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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, Julia Palmer, 13 July 2023
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