Organizations often face significant downtime and costs following a ransomware attack. Mitigating these impacts requires faster detection, response, and recovery to ultimately reduce the need to pay ransoms and minimize operational disruptions.
Funneling real-time ransomware alerts from your storage system into your organization’s security information and event management system (SIEM) enables comprehensive incident reporting and analysis, allowing your security team to respond swiftly to potential attacks and make informed decisions based on a holistic view of your security posture.
We are excited to announce NetApp BlueXP ransomware protection now natively and seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Sentinel SIEM. No need for a separate stand-alone SIEM integration app. This combination provides a powerful solution to detect, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks on your workloads faster and more effectively than ever before.
Benefits of Integrating BlueXP Ransomware Protection with Microsoft Sentinel
The integration of BlueXP ransomware protection with Microsoft Sentinel channels critical threat intelligence and alerts from the storage layer directly into your security operations platform. This enhancement significantly improves the speed and coordination with which your teams can respond to threats. The benefits of this integration include:
- Advanced Anomaly Detection The integration leverages NetApp’s advanced anomaly detection capabilities. Suspicious file activity and user behavior that indicates a potential attack is identified in BlueXP ransomware protection and immediately reported to Microsoft Sentinel, enhancing your ability to detect and investigate potential ransomware attacks.
- Comprehensive Threat Visibility: By sending alerts and anomaly information from BlueXP ransomware protection into Microsoft Sentinel, you add critical insights from your storage to your broader security landscape. This holistic visibility helps in better understanding the scope and impact of potential threats, allowing for more informed decision-making.
- Real-Time Incident Tracking: The integration with Microsoft Sentinel allows for real-time tracking of security incidents. This means that any anomalies or potential threats detected by BlueXP ransomware protection are immediately reported to Microsoft Sentinel, enabling your security operations center (SOC) to respond swiftly.
- Automated Response Actions: BlueXP ransomware protection automatically takes immutable, indelible snapshot copies of your data upon detecting an anomaly. These snapshots are crucial for minimizing business disruptions and ensuring that you have safe backup options for recovery. This automated response complements your SIEM workflows, enabling a coordinated and efficient recovery process.
- Improved Recovery Processes: In the unfortunate event of a successful ransomware attack, BlueXP ransomware protection’s integration with Microsoft Sentinel facilitates a streamlined recovery process. The detailed incident reports generated by BlueXP ransomware protection (that include information on the type of anomaly detected, affected files, and the triggers that warranted the alert) can help the SOC investigate incidents. Once incidents are resolved, teams can mark the impacted workloads ready to be restored from the best restore point identified by BlueXP ransomware protection, and the workload can be restored in minutes, with minimal manual intervention through orchestrated recovery.
- Cost Savings and Reduced Downtime: With the combined power of BlueXP ransomware protection and Microsoft Sentinel, your organization can avoid the costly consequences of ransomware attacks. The ability to detect and respond to threats in real-time, coupled with efficient recovery processes, minimizes downtime and reduces the need to pay ransoms.
In addition to this news, we have two other exciting product updates that further strengthen your ransomware preparedness and resilience:
- The integration of AI-driven data classification into BlueXP ransomware protection is now GA: For customers who have already deployed BlueXP classification on-premises or in their virtual private cloud, you can now get privacy risk insights from BlueXP classification in BlueXP ransomware protection. This feature tells you which workloads contain personal or sensitive information and helps you prioritize workload protection, ensuring that information is safeguarded with the highest level of security.
- The integration of User and Entity Behavior Analytics from Data Infrastructure Insights Storage Workload Security into BlueXP ransomware protection is now GA: This feature monitors and analyzes user activities to identify and alert on suspicious behavior.
Why Choose BlueXP Ransomware Protection?
BlueXP ransomware protection provides the fastest and easiest way to protect and recover your workloads. It orchestrates a comprehensive defense strategy that covers the entire NIST framework: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover through a single control plane, ensuring that the critical workloads that run your business are adequately protected, that attacks on them will be detected and mitigated in real-time, and recovery will be quick and painless!
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