KUALA LUMPUR: NetApp Inc, via its local subsidiary NetApp Malaysia Sdn Bhd, has unveiled new cyber-resilience capabilities that it claims make its storage the most secure in the world.

The update to its Ransomware Resilience service introduces industry-first data breach detection and isolated recovery environments to help enterprises protect and restore mission-critical information, the company said in a statement today.

The enhanced service, formerly known as NetApp Ransomware Protection, integrates AI-powered ransomware detection with new tools designed to stop exfiltration attempts before they lead to wider breaches.

It is also said to provide customers with isolated environments to ensure safe and malware-free workload recovery, reinforcing storage as both an early and final line of defence against cyberattacks.

“To effectively protect your data from a cyberattack, you need to know it happened as early as possible to take action,” said Gagan Gulati, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Data Services at NetApp.

“With new AI-powered capabilities to detect early indicators of data exfiltration attempts, on top of our existing ransomware detection, we are making enterprise data even safer. Storage is the last line of defence to protect our customers’ most valuable asset — data.”

Key updates:

• NetApp Ransomware Resilience: Provides orchestrated, workload-centric ransomware defence across file and block storage through a single control plane.
• Data Breach Detection: Uses AI to spot anomalous behaviour that signals potential exfiltration, automatically alerting customers via their SIEM systems.
• Isolated Recovery Environments: Ensures safe restoration of the most recent clean data, using AI to identify when and how data was compromised.

The enhancements build on NetApp’s ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection with Artificial Intelligence (ARP/AI), which has achieved 99 per cent detection of advanced ransomware attacks with zero false positives in external testing.

Analysts say the latest features address growing risks as enterprises accelerate AI adoption and expand their attack surfaces.

“The new data breach detection capability gives enterprises a critical advance warning enabling them to stop and respond to cyber threats before they impact the business,” said Philip Bues, Senior Research Manager for Cloud Security and Confidential Computing at IDC.

“It shows that NetApp is more than a storage company — it is a trusted partner addressing the most pressing priorities of its customers.”