Written By Eric Herzog, CMO at Infinidat
2025 will be remembered for many things, but for me, a key highlight is the universal recognition among IT executives, cyber security analysts, and the partner community that cyber resilient enterprise storage is essential for securing critical infrastructure. To clarify exactly what this means – cyber resilient enterprise storage is an advanced storage system that can detect, withstand, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks, whilst keeping your critical business data accessible and protected. For many years, enterprise storage was overlooked when crafting a corporate cybersecurity strategy due to a mistaken belief that it wasn’t relevant. That couldn’t be further from the truth and now, major industry analyst firms across the industry spectrum are aligned on this critical message for users.
At several cyber security events this year, cyber security analysts pointed out the importance of enterprise cyber storage security to a comprehensive cyber security strategy. Increasingly, CISOs, CIOs, and CTOs agree that excluding storage from cybersecurity planning represents a major risk. Some forward-thinking vendors have championed this approach for years, winning awards from cybersecurity and storage communities, but 2025 marks the year the entire analyst community has realised the importance of enterprise storage cyber security.
Escalating threat landscape
According to PwC’s 2026 Global Digital Trust Insights survey (October 2025), 60% of business and tech leaders rank cyber risk investment in their top three strategic priorities. Approximately, half of the global respondents reported that their organisation is, at best, only ‘somewhat capable’ of withstanding cyberattacks targeting specific vulnerabilities. Only 6% of the executives surveyed felt confident across all cyber security vulnerabilities mentioned in the PwC research.
Cyber criminals are finding new and creative ways to exploit weaknesses in enterprise IT infrastructure. The ransomware threat landscape is exceedingly dangerous, characterised by the increasing use of AI and more sophisticated, multi-layered extortion methods, including double and triple extortion.
The rules for securing your enterprise storage infrastructure have changed. The way that data is being managed and protected in 2025 is so different from what was commonly done just a couple of years ago. Digital disaster recovery is the new disaster recovery in enterprise storage. And because the attack plane has dramatically expanded, not only have we needed to rethink the problem, but we’ve also needed to completely rethink the solution.
Increasingly, enterprises are called upon to re-evaluate how they are securing their IT infrastructure and critical corporate data. The key question at hand today is: Is your enterprise’s storage infrastructure protected enough from cyberattacks? Your answer to this question determines your next move. And how do you know when “enough” is enough?
Cyber resilient storage represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises approach data protection. It goes beyond traditional backup and recovery to incorporating advanced cyber security features specifically designed to defend against modern cyber threats. The focus is on preparedness for digital disaster recovery – ensuring that when an attack occurs, enterprises can respond quickly and effectively to restore their operations – next generation data protection.
Infinidat’s approach to ensuring cyber resilient storage
Infinidat has taken comprehensive measures to incorporate cyber resilient storage capabilities into its solutions suite, recognising that the rapidly expanding attack plane demands a complete rethinking of both problem and solution. The company has developed technologies and solutions specifically designed to address the sophisticated, multi-layered extortion methods that characterise today’s ransomware threat landscape.
By integrating advanced cybersecurity features into its enterprise storage solutions, Infinidat enables enterprises to better protect critical corporate data and to ensure that storage systems are not just protected, but resilient against a cyberattack. This means the ability to maintain operations and be able to recover quickly, even when cyber criminals employ AI-powered tactics to get around, override and power through existing cyber defences.
In our experience, comprehensive cyber resilient and cyber recovery enterprise storage requires six core components:
- Immutable snapshots that cannot be altered or deleted
- Logical air-gapping – local, remote, or both
- Fenced forensic environments where teams can safely identify clean data copies to then execute recovery
- Near-instantaneous recovery capabilities, with vendor-guaranteed SLAs, minimising downtime
- Seamless integration with SIEM, SOAR, and SOC systems, enabling automated threat response when security tools detect threats
- AI and ML-powered scanning of snapshots, file systems, VMware data stores, and databases to detect malware and ransomware proactively, functioning as an early warning system or for validating potential data recovery candidates post-attack.
Watershed moment for enterprise storage
2025 will be remembered as significant for enterprise storage because it is the year that many in the analyst community realised the importance of enterprise storage cyber security. For IT executives, cyber security analysts, and partner communities alike, the message is clear – cyber resilient storage is no longer an optional extra. It is a fundamental requirement for any enterprise seeking to protect its critical data and maintain business continuity in the face of an increasingly sophisticated and dangerous threat landscape.
About Eric Herzog
Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.