By Byron V. Acohido

It’s no secret that cyber criminals go after data. What’s often overlooked is shoring up direct protection where that data typically resides: in enterprise storage systems. That’s beginning to change.

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Enterprise storage security has moved to the front burner. The emerging best practice is to approach it as a core component of disaster recovery—integrating perimeter and cloud detection with forensic mechanisms at the storage layer itself.

That’s my big takeaway visiting with Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, as the pilgrimage of security pros and senior to RSAC 2025 gets underway. Attackers are no dummies; they’ve been evolving their tactics to exploit this often-neglected tier, Herzog told me.

Herzog notes that 95 percent of high-end enterprise data lives on enterprise-grade storage—and sophisticated threat actors know exactly how to get to it.

Despite heavy investment in endpoint and network defenses, storage security remains a dangerous blind spot at many organizations.

To address this, Infinidat a few years ago introduced InfiniSafe, a built-in suite of tools that includes immutable snapshots, logical air gapping, and fenced forensic environments. Integrated into broader SOC workflows or SIEM/SOAR systems, these controls shrink the threat window and enable precision recovery.

“Storage is the home of your golden nuggets,” Herzog told me. “By securing storage the right way, you’re strengthening your entire cyber resiliency posture.”

•Listen to the full podcast interview to hear how Infinidat is helping organizations modernize storage security as part of end-to-end cyber defense.

Acohido

Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

(LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

April 23rd, 2025