AI data protection underpins the Infinidat-Index Engines partnership | #cybercrime | #infosec

With a pathological footprint traceable to explosive global data growth, cyberattacks are the new digital pandemic. As a result, AI data protection isn’t just about backups anymore — it’s about resilience, rapid recovery and artificial intelligence-powered defenses.

In an era where traditional defense methods struggle to cope with modern cyber threats, what long-term approaches can prudently safeguard enterprises as they innovate for the future?

“We’ve come together [with Infinidat Ltd.] with a recovery-first mindset, and it’s an interesting solution because it’s not only purpose-built for ransomware and recovery,” said Danielle Goode Coady (pictured, right), vice president of marketing at Index Engines Inc. “We’re focused on redefining what cyber recovery is and what cyber resilience can be for organizations trying to re-engage trust from their stakeholders.”

Coady and Eric Herzog (left), chief marketing officer of Infinidat, spoke with theCUBE’s Christophe Bertrand at the Data Protection & AI Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the growing need for enterprises to embrace recovery-first strategies powered by advanced AI, rapid recovery technologies and continuous testing. (* Disclosure below.)

AI data protection moves from backups to recovery-first mindsets

In today’s AI data protection era, being prepared isn’t enough — being fast, intelligent and integrated is essential. In partnership with Infinidat, Index Engines integrates its patented AI through the InfiniSafe platform to validate snapshot integrity and ensure clean data recovery following an attack. Beyond containing threats, this approach eliminates reinfection risks and restores trust expediently, Coady noted.

“We have covered the InfiniSafe line of products through storage and snapshot validation — that data integrity that is so important,” she said. “When a ransomware does happen — because it’s not a matter of if, but when. When a ransomware attack does occur, the data is clean, validated and can be recovered without malinfection or reinfection of the entire infrastructure.”

Storage is critical as the bedrock of enterprise digital strategies and, notably, AI development efforts. Therefore, organizations that fail to integrate storage into cybersecurity strategies have “left the doors wide open,” according to Herzog.

“Ninety percent of mission-critical and business-critical data in the global Fortune 1000 is sitting on their enterprise storage,” he said. “You’ve got to protect it, not just worry about the network and the servers, and obviously the edge is important, but you’ve got to bring it all together. It’s a team sport, fighting cybercrime.”

When attacks do occur, response time is everything. Infinidat’s InfiniSafe platform boasts recovery times of under a minute for primary storage and under 20 minutes for backup repositories — even at scales exceeding 25 petabytes, Herzog added.

AI now plays both sides of the cyber battle — fueling more sophisticated attacks and enabling advanced defense. AI’s dual role in this interplay has culminated in increased cybercrime and growing compliance demands. Index Engines’ AI, trained on over 3,000 ransomware variants daily, doesn’t just detect threats: It learns and evolves in lockstep.

“We detonate [the variants] in our lab, and it’s an AI-patented process,” she said. “While storage is cool, data integrity is cool, and most organizations now know that AI is cool; the strength of their AI is the biggest thing to ask your vendor. If they’re doing AI, how highly trained is it? Because we have a patent on our AI process.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Data Protection & AI Summit:

(* Disclosure: Infinidat Ltd. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Infinidat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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