Ransomware Stops Here.
At the Storage Layer. In Under a Second.
Your backup vendor will tell you they can recover from ransomware. RackTop will tell you the better answer: stop the attack before it finishes, at the only point in the kill chain where the data can still be saved — the storage system itself.
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A recorded demo of BrickStor SP's Active Defense detecting and containing a live ransomware attack at the storage layer — before files are encrypted.
The reality of ransomware in 2026
Ransomware is no longer an opportunistic crime. It is a business. Operators specialize, supply chains exist, and the targets are chosen. Healthcare systems get hit because they will pay to keep patients alive. Utilities get hit because they cannot afford downtime. Schools get hit because they have no defense. Manufacturers get hit because every hour of stopped production is a number their CFO can calculate.
The defenses most organizations have built — endpoint detection, network monitoring, identity protection, SIEM rules, awareness training — are necessary but they are not sufficient. By the time a modern ransomware operator is encrypting your file shares, every one of those layers has already failed. They had to fail for the operator to be where they are.
The only layer left is the storage system itself. And until BrickStor SP, the storage system was a passive participant — a target waiting to be encrypted, with no ability to recognize the attack or stop it. That changed with Cyberstorage.
What BrickStor SP does
BrickStor SP is a secure NAS with patented Active Defense built into the data path. Every file operation against the storage system — every SMB write, every NFS read, every S3 request — is inspected in real time against behavioral models trained on ransomware attack patterns. When the model recognizes an attack, BrickStor SP stops the offending session in under a second.
In practice, this means an attacker who would have encrypted 200,000 files on a traditional NAS encrypts a small number on BrickStor SP before the session is killed. The few files that were affected are surgically rolled back using Intelligent Bulk Remediation, in minutes. Your users keep working. Your incident responders write a much shorter report. Your CFO does not get the call.
How it works
Inline detection
Active Defense inspects every file operation as it happens, with full context — user, IP, file, operation, timing.
Behavioral models
AI-driven anomaly detection trained on ransomware attack patterns — bulk encryption, mass deletion, abnormal exfiltration cadence — running against the live operation stream. New attack variants ship in BrickStor SP releases.
Real-time response
When the pipeline recognizes an attack with sufficient confidence, BrickStor SP stops the session, isolates the user, snapshots affected data, and alerts your security team — in under a second.
Surgical recovery
Patented Intelligent Bulk Remediation uses BrickStor SP's forensic audit trail to identify exactly which files the bad session touched and roll back only those, in minutes — not the entire share over days.
Immutable safety net
Patented ImmutaVault maintains immutable, indelible, isolated copies of your most critical data inside BrickStor SP itself, surviving even an attack that gets domain admin and tries to destroy the snapshots.
Forensic evidence
Every event is recorded immutably with full context, exportable to your SIEM and your incident response process.
Why this is different from what your backup vendor offers
Backup vendors have built credible cyber recovery features for the backup tier — immutable repositories, anomaly detection on backup data, orchestrated recovery. We see Rubrik, Cohesity, and Veeam in customer environments alongside BrickStor SP all the time. They are good at what they do.
Backup vendors protect the copy
They make sure that when production is destroyed, an immutable copy exists somewhere else. That is recovery, not prevention. Every successful attack becomes a recovery event — downtime, lost work, manual reconciliation, regulatory disclosure, the whole expensive cascade.
BrickStor SP protects the production data itself
Active Defense stops the attack before production is destroyed. ImmutaVault provides the in-platform safety net. IBR provides surgical recovery. Most events that would have become recovery events on a backup-only architecture never reach the backup recovery process at all.
You should still have a backup product. You should back up BrickStor SP with it. But the cost-benefit math of "we have backups" as your ransomware strategy stops working when the cost of downtime and reconciliation dwarfs the cost of preventing the event in the first place.
What this changes for your organization
A measurable reduction in unstructured data attack surface, on a platform that consolidates several existing security and storage tools.
Real-time detection and response at the storage layer, with the forensic evidence the SOC needs and the audit evidence the compliance team needs.
Alerts that arrive in milliseconds with full context, for attacks that have already been stopped — not hours later from log correlation.
One platform that does the job of the file server plus the file activity monitor plus the immutable vault plus the audit pipeline.
A cost case that compares favorably to assembling the same outcome from four or five point products plus integration labor — and a dramatically reduced expected cost of a ransomware event.
A defensible answer to "what are we doing about ransomware?"
What you get on day one
- ✓Active Defense protecting every file operation against ransomware, insider threats, and credentialed misuse
- ✓Intelligent Bulk Remediation ready for surgical recovery
- ✓ImmutaVault for the most critical data
- ✓The forensic audit trail
- ✓A drop-in replacement for legacy NAS — no operational disruption to users
- ✓Hub Central management
How to get started
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Contact us →FAQ
- Active Defense inspects file operations inline. When an attack is recognized, the session is killed before the next batch of malicious operations completes. A typical ransomware burst is shut down after a small number of files instead of hundreds of thousands.
- Intelligent Bulk Remediation provides surgical recovery from the forensic record. ImmutaVault provides the immutable in-platform safety net. And you should still have a backup product for the disaster scenarios no prevention layer can address.
- Active Defense detects ransomware, insider exfiltration, mass deletion, credentialed account misuse, and abnormal data access patterns. Ransomware is the most visible use case but not the only one.
- No. BrickStor SP exports events to your SIEM. The difference is that detection and response happen in BrickStor SP in real time — the SIEM is for cross-environment correlation, not for catching the attack.
- No. BrickStor SP sees file operations at the protocol layer.
- Complementary. BrickStor SP prevents attacks at the production data layer. Your backup product protects the recovery copy. You should have both, and you should back up BrickStor SP with your backup product.
- BrickStor SP is deployed across enterprise IT environments — healthcare, financial services, utilities, manufacturing, higher education, M&E — as well as federal civilian and the Department of War (DoW, formerly DoD).
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