Years after Infinidat pioneered the award-winning InfiniSafe® cyber storage security software suite, our competitors are finally introducing similar capabilities. However, while multiple storage vendors are rolling out cyber defense features, their recent offerings often require complex infrastructure overhead and have critical architectural gaps that expose additional vulnerabilities, instead of reducing them.

Since cybersecurity is an industry-wide concern, we welcome this competitive focus on cyber storage resilience. But the market is still playing catch-up with the seamless, low-complexity, and mature recovery solutions that Infinidat has perfected in our cyber-resilient stack over years of production deployment.

“Ransomware attack volumes hit a ‘high-water mark’ in July. The number of ransomware attacks hit the highest level seen so far this year in July”¹

Infinidat’s Next-Generation Data Protection and Recovery is a Cyber-First, Recovery-Focused Strategy built on our storage solutions, powered by our InfiniSafe software suite. This strategy moves beyond traditional data protection methods, which are often targeted attack points and are optimized for backup, rather than fast restore. By integrating immutable snapshot protection, SOC/SIEM/SOAR data center-wide early-warning detection, deep malware and ransomware detection capabilities, and guaranteed near-instantaneous recovery, Infinidat delivers next-gen capabilities.

The built-in InfiniSafe Cyber Stack anchors Infinidat’s next-gen data protection with five core capabilities:

• Guaranteed Snapshot Immutability: Guaranteed protection against deletion, encryption, or alteration
• Logical Air-Gapping: Cost-effective data isolation without physical movement
• Fenced Forensic Environment: An isolated, non-disruptive sandbox for secure testing and validation
• Automated Cyber Protection: Seamless integration with data center-wide SIEM or SOAR cybersecurity software or your Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Instant Recovery: Rapid volume presentation measured in minutes, or seconds, not days

In recent years, cyberattackers have increasingly targeted snapshots and backups—either encrypting or deleting them entirely—underscoring the absolute necessity of immutability. InfiniSafe® immutable snapshots are guaranteed; once configured with a defined retention window, Infinidat guarantees that they cannot be deleted, altered, or prematurely expired.

In contrast, many storage vendors’ immutable snapshots aren’t truly immutable—with options or alternatives that may allow immutability retention policies to be bypassed and retention to expire.

Cyberattackers have years of social engineering experience compromising privileged credentials and authentication protocols. If a storage system leaves any backdoor or administrative override to delete immutable snapshots, attackers will exploit it—a career-defining disaster no IT professional wants to experience. With Infinidat InfiniSafe®, this risk is entirely eliminated.

InfiniSafe Fenced Forensic Environment is a mature, field-proven capability engineered to instantly present an isolated, secure, private network space, separate from production systems, for cyber defense, forensics, and recovery.

It delivers a secure, isolated environment for post-attack validation and restore without impacting production workloads. Backed by a contractual RTO guarantee, both InfiniBox® and InfiniBox™ SSA all-flash systems instantly present multi-petabyte immutable snapshots to the fenced network in under one minute with zero performance impact. In fact, in our July 8, 2026 “Experts Live” session, we recovered live a 9.8PB immutable snapshot in ONLY 4 seconds.

Two major competitors finally introduced built-in isolated recovery environments in 2025, but their newly delivered 2026 frameworks come with a catch: they require complex infrastructure orchestration and virtual machine spin-ups just to function.

More importantly, neither vendor guarantees on-array recovery time, which we all know… RTO is key to the business recovery! Instead, one vendor limits its SLA to hardware logistics—promising next-business-day shipping of clean systems and a transfer rate of only 8 TiB per hour once on-site. The other omits an RTO guarantee, instead warning in its contract that recovery timelines depend strictly on the complexity of the request. Go figure!

Once an “isolated,” fenced forensic environment is enabled, it is imperative to ensure that the data to be restored is “clean.” This is where InfiniSafe Cyber Detection comes in! It is a subscription-licensed solution that validates data integrity within immutable snapshots for guaranteed post-attack recovery. By presenting block, file, database, and VMware snapshots to an advanced AI engine, it utilizes over 200 temporal data analytics—20x more than competitors—to detect malware or ransomware with 99.99% accuracy. When a cyberattack occurs, the system delivers critical forensic intelligence by mapping the blast radius, identifying specific corrupted files, and pinpointing the exact “last known good copy” to accelerate data restoration.

In comparison, most other companies that deliver enterprise storage products, or that claim to do so, employ real-time “anomaly detection.” In a nutshell, anomaly detection monitors a limited set of real-time variables, such as “Data Entropy” (randomness), File Suffix/Extension Swaps, and I/O Rate and behavior (IOPs) to determine the presence of a cyberattack. Anomaly Detection is similar to examining the exterior of a package or its shipping label for unusual attributes, such as a sudden change in weight or an unexpected recipient’s address. This quick check relies on surface-level metrics, even though it cannot see the contents inside.

InfiniSafe Cyber Detection is like having a specialized forensic expert meticulously disassemble each package and verify every piece of material inside.

Beyond the above cyber protection/cyber recovery benefits, InfiniSafe Cyber Protection isn’t limited to the storage system itself. InfiniSafe Automated Cyber Protection (ACP) delivers seamless integration between Infinidat storage and SIEM/SOAR data center-wide cybersecurity software or your SOC to drastically shrink the ransomware threat window.

Rather than relying solely on scheduled backups, ACP uses APIs and connectors to listen directly to your cybersecurity ecosystem. The moment an active threat or anomaly triggers an alert, ACP automatically creates an immutable snapshot. This real-time automation captures a clean data point immediately, mitigating data corruption and eliminating operational chaos during a cyber incident identified by SecOps.

The bottom line: Infinidat’s InfiniSafe solution delivers distinct, significant advantages in guaranteed snapshot data immutability, guaranteed recovery time (RTO), forensic depth, and architectural simplicity, making Infinidat THE choice for high-stakes enterprise storage environments!

Don’t take our word for it. Check it out for yourself. Contact us to learn more about our solutions. Our enterprise storage experts are happy to explain and demonstrate how Infinidat can help you:

• Experience faster applications with unmatched, real-world performance
• Enjoy zero downtime with 100% availability guaranteed
• Benefit from greater cyber storage resilience with InfiniSafe
• Be more productive, thanks to set-it-and-forget-it IT operations
• Gain greater business value with low TCO and rapid ROI

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¹ https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366649779/Ransomware-attack-volumes-hit-high-water-mark-in-July