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Cyber Resilience

Security Built Smarter

The NetApp data platform embeds cyber resilience directly into your data infrastructure—unifying ransomware protection, backup, disaster recovery, and governance at the source.

NetApp Data Platform

Picture your next board meeting.

Your CEO presents the AI roadmap—predictive analytics that will transform the customer experience, automated workflows that will cut costs by millions, and intelligent systems that will outpace every competitor. You're caught between two impossible scenarios.

Say yes too quickly, and you're on the hook when—not if—a cyberattack succeeds. Hedge too much, and you're the executive who killed the company's top strategic initiative.

NetApp Data Platform overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set NetApp Data Platform apart.

When AI fails, it fails at scale

AI-scale failure impact

When training datasets get corrupted, you lose months of model development. When inference pipelines go down, revenue stops in real time. And when attackers poison your data, the damage compounds with every decision your AI makes—and every result it delivers.

Industry statistics

  • 86% of security leaders faced an AI-related cyberattack in the past year
  • 80% of organizations have attack paths exposing critical data and systems
  • 2% of companies are fully resilient against these attacks

The shift

To achieve cyber resilience, leading organizations embed security directly at the data layer rather than bolting it on afterward—making protection the foundation of every AI initiative.

Data-layer security that's built-in delivers

Real-time threat detection

Real-time threat detection where data lives.

Ransomware-resistant backups

Ransomware-resistant backups.

Rapid recovery

Recovery in hours, not weeks.

Your stakes: Why AI-ready data is your most critical business asset

Your stakes: Why AI-ready data is your most critical business asset

AI-ready data importance

AI-ready data isn't just another IT asset—it's the engine of innovation and value creation. And it's under attack. As organizations race to scale AI from proof-of-concept to production, they're discovering a dangerous blind spot: traditional security approaches weren't designed to protect the complex, distributed nature of AI data pipelines.

Corrupt the data, cripple the mission

  • Lost competitive edge: Innovation stalls while your competitors advance
  • Biased or corrupted models: Flawed business decisions and reputational damage
  • Regulatory penalties: Audits fail; compliance becomes impossible
  • Board scrutiny intensifies: Leadership demands answers for failed investments

The vulnerability is structural

Corrupting one training dataset can do more damage than locking a thousand servers. Attackers know that enterprises rushing to deploy AI often skip the basics—making data the easiest entry point. 84% of companies report rising attack-surface activity. As you scale AI across hybrid cloud environments and third-party services, your external attack surface grows exponentially. Each new environment, integration, and edge deployment creates potential vulnerabilities that traditional perimeter defenses can't protect.

The inflection point

A single-pane platform spanning all environments—on-premises, private clouds, and public clouds such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—gives AI teams and applications seamless mobility and access to data wherever it resides, without slowing anyone down. Decouple resources to deliver exactly what AI workloads need, when they need it. Scale storage independently of compute for true cloud-native performance.

Your challenge: Securing the data layer for the AI era

Where traditional security falls short

  • Fragmented visibility: Siloed security tools across environments create blind spots where threats hide and spread.
  • Reactive detection: Alerts come after the damage when threats have already compromised workloads.
  • Complex recovery: Restoring AI pipelines is slow and disconnected, delaying recovery and disrupting value delivery.
  • Compliance gaps: When you can't prove continuous protection, audits fail and trust erodes across hybrid environments.

The cost of failure skyrockets quickly

  • $3.32 million—Average breach cost typically magnified for AI-driven organizations
  • $2 million per hour—Median cost of high-impact IT outages, a risk that scales rapidly as AI workloads expand across hybrid environments

AI maturity gap

90% of companies lack the maturity to counter AI-enabled cyber threats. AI progress accelerates faster than security can adapt. The gap widens every day—and the CISOs who close it first will define the future.

When protection becomes the problem

The answer isn't more tools—it's a smarter foundation. Integrating security at the data layer closes visibility gaps, eliminates silos, and keeps defenses consistent across every environment.

Your solution: AI-powered data security that enables cyber resilience

Cyber resilience as outcome

Cyber resilience isn't a feature—it's an outcome. It happens when you engineer protection, detection, and recovery directly into your data layer, where AI workloads live and learn. This is the difference between defending the perimeter and protecting the core—your models, data, and decision pipelines.

How protecting the data layer changes everything

By embedding intelligent, AI-powered security capabilities at the data layer, you transform security from overhead into storage that automatically scales with AI. Your outcome: Security becomes an enabler, not an impediment. You eliminate the complexity that stalls AI deployments, gaining speed and protection simultaneously.

Unified visibility everywhere

End-to-end protection for AI pipelines across on-premises and multicloud environments. Break down silos, preserve integrity, and enforce consistent policies from edge to core to cloud.

Intelligent automation in action

Continuous detection and automated response keep AI workloads running with near-zero disruption. AI-powered ransomware protection stops attacks in real time and cuts operational inefficiency.

Protection that scales with AI

Ransomware detection, automated backup, disaster recovery, and governance unified on a single foundation. Immutable copies and orchestrated recovery prevent tampering, end delays, and keep AI scaling to value.

Real-world defense: When ransomware targets your AI

The new era of ransomware

Ransomware has entered a new era—attackers target the AI initiatives your CEO has staked her reputation on as the engine of growth. When training data gets corrupted or models get encrypted, the damage extends far beyond downtime.

Without data-layer protection

  • 3:00 AM: Attackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential.
  • 3:15 AM: Your production AI models and training datasets get encrypted.
  • 3:30 AM: $5M ransom demand received.
  • 6 weeks to retrain models from scratch
  • $3M+ in lost revenue while AI services are down
  • Regulatory scrutiny over the breach
  • Board questions about successful AI attackers

With data-layer protection

  • 3:00 AM: Attackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential.
  • 3:01: Automated detection flags anomalous behavior in real time.
  • Attackers can't encrypt protected backups
  • Restore to last known-good state in under 2 hours
  • AI services back online before the business day starts

Protect

Maintain immutable copies attackers can't touch, even if they succeed at taking over your network. These unchangeable copies protect more than your organization—they protect your career when the board asks if you can recover.

Detect

Identify ransomware behavior in real time at the data layer—before it spreads. Catch attacks at the earliest stage by monitoring anomalies in AI data access.

Recover

Initiate automated restoration in hours—not weeks—so you can act confidently, eliminate manual guesswork, and return quickly to a verified clean state.

Your outcome

Preserve model integrity, maintain customer trust, and keep AI initiatives on track—even when attacks breach your perimeter.

AI compliance: From audit risk to competitive advantage

Compliance challenges with AI

  • Proving where your AI training data came from—and that it wasn't compromised
  • Demonstrating that automated decisions can be explained and contested
  • Keeping data in the right countries as AI trains across multiple clouds
  • Documenting the entire AI lifecycle for regulatory audits

When compliance gets personal

€1.2 billion in GDPR fines in 2024—and accountability is on the rise. Recent enforcement actions make one thing clear: accountability doesn't stop with the enterprise; it starts with its leaders.

Data-layer governance

Traditional GRC tools run at the application layer, leaving gaps when data moves between environments. Data-layer governance closes those gaps by carrying controls with the data—keeping compliance even as AI workloads span on-premises systems, multiple clouds, and edge locations.

Prove data origins automatically

Track every dataset from source to model with immutable records—so when auditors ask, you have answers ready.

Maintain geographic boundaries

Data stays in required jurisdictions even during disaster recovery. The data layer enforces location requirements automatically.

Generate continuous audit trails

Every data access, transformation, and model update gets logged—no manual work and no gaps during failover.

Adapt to regulations faster

Apply policies once at the data layer, and every workload inherits them—whether it's GDPR, HIPAA, or the next mandate.

Your outcome

Compliance becomes a competitive accelerator. You can scale AI faster, expand into new and regulated markets, and deploy models sooner without the delays of manual security reviews.

Operational resilience: Drive near-zero downtime for AI

Why continuity matters

When cyberattacks strike, operational continuity is the ultimate measure of resilience. In an AI-driven enterprise, this means keeping intelligent operations running—even in the middle of disruption.

Attacks target availability, not just data

End-to-end protection for AI pipeline across on-premises and multicloud environments. Break down silos, preserve integrity, and enforce consistent policies from edge to core to cloud.

AI pipelines amplify disruption

Continuous detection and automated response keep AI workloads running with near-zero disruption. AI-powered ransomware protection stops attacks in real time and cuts inefficiency.

Enterprise-wide resilience requires proof

Demonstrate to boards and customers that your AI initiatives can scale securely and reliably, even during attacks.

Continuous AI operations

When ransomware strikes your training environment, all production models keep running on protected replicas. Your customers never see disruption.

Instant failover

If attackers compromise a model registry, automated systems detect the anomaly and fail over to the last verified-clean version. Recovery happens in minutes.

Protected real-time intelligence

Maintain continuous access to accurate data and analytics. AI results stay reliable under pressure.

Your outcome

Protect both trust and your balance sheet. With near-instant recovery, you'll safeguard revenue, maintain continuous AI operations, and transform resilience into your strategic edge.

Data-layer continuity required

Traditional continuity plans assume you can fail over to a backup system. But with AI, you need the exact training data, trained models, and configurations that were in production. To achieve this, you must have data-layer continuity.

From defense to AI dominance: Fortifying resilience at the data layer

The winning approach

The organizations that win with AI won't be the ones with the most data scientists or the biggest budgets. They'll be the ones who solve the cyber resilience equation first. That means rethinking how you build your security foundation—not as an afterthought scattered across dozens of point solutions, but as a unified approach anchored at the data layer, where protection, detection, and recovery begin.

SPEED

Detect threats in real-time and recover in hours, not weeks—while competitors are still assessing damage.

SIMPLICITY

Unify ransomware protection, backup, disaster recovery, and governance in one foundation. Fewer tools mean fewer gaps.

SCALABILITY

Maintain protection as AI workloads span clouds and other environments. Security grows with your ambition.

ALIGNMENT

Bridge security and storage teams with a shared foundation that accelerates response, detection, and recovery.

ASSURANCE

Prove compliance to boards, regulators, and customers—and build trust that turns security into an advantage.

Make your next move

Security leaders can keep patching tools that slow or even stall AI deployment—or they can design resilience into the data layer to scale AI value with confidence. It's time to make data security the foundation of your legacy and your company's future in AI.

AI-ready resilience in action: Thor Motor Coach

Customer transformation

By strengthening its data foundation, Thor Motor Coach improved efficiency and achieved the resilience to keep operations running—no matter what.

Results achieved

  • 30% infrastructure savings per year
  • 45% monthly reduction in network costs
  • 99.999% system availability
  • Backup time cut from 76 hours to under 1 hour

Customer quote

"We're a vastly different looking organization than we were before the transformation—faster, more nimble, and cost-effective." — Scott Sibert, Director of Information Technology, Thor Motor Coach

Secure AI at the data layer—where it matters most

Foundation for AI success

AI success depends on one critical foundation: data you can trust and protect. The NetApp data platform embeds cyber resilience directly into your data infrastructure—unifying ransomware protection, backup, disaster recovery, and governance at the source.

Built in, not bolted on

With real-time threat detection, immutable data protection, and rapid recovery built into the foundation, you don't just defend AI—you accelerate it with confidence. Intelligence built in, not bolted on.
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Technical Specifications

Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.

  • Traditional: Back up entire applications
    AI-Powered Data-Layer: Protect data and models at the source
  • Traditional: Manual recovery procedures
    AI-Powered Data-Layer: Automated decision and failover
  • Traditional: Hours to days to restore
    AI-Powered Data-Layer: Minutes to hours to restore
  • Traditional: Risk of inconsistency
    AI-Powered Data-Layer: Guaranteed integrity
  • Traditional: Separate tools for disaster recovery
    AI-Powered Data-Layer: Unified protection

  • Security leaders facing AI-related cyberattack in past year
    86%
  • Organizations with attack paths exposing critical data and systems
    80%
  • Companies fully resilient against these attacks
    2%
  • Companies reporting rising attack-surface activity
    84%
  • Companies lacking maturity to counter AI-enabled cyber threats
    90%
  • Average breach cost
    $3.32 million
  • Median cost of high-impact IT outages
    $2 million per hour
  • GDPR fines in 2024
    €1.2 billion

  • Infrastructure savings per year
    30%
  • Monthly reduction in network costs
    45%
  • System availability
    99.999%
  • Backup time reduction
    From 76 hours to under 1 hour

  • 3:00 AM
    Attackers gain access through a compromised vendor credential
  • 3:01 AM
    Automated detection flags anomalous behavior in real time
  • Recovery time
    Restore to last known-good state in under 2 hours
  • Service restoration
    AI services back online before the business day starts

  • Foundation
    Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS
  • Enhancement
    Enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX
  • Architecture
    Disaggregated by design—separates storage, services, and control
  • Cloud integration
    Only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world's largest clouds
  • Delivers
    Observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale
  • Supported environments
    On-premises, private clouds, and public clouds such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

Compare NetApp Data Platform Series

Select the right scale for your workload demands.

Compare NetApp Data Platform Series — capacity and port configuration by model.
Model Name Max Capacity Port Config Action
Traditional Data Security Back up entire applications; Hours to days to restore Separate tools for disaster recovery; Manual recovery procedures Get Quote
AI-Powered, Data-Layer Cyber Resilience (NetApp Data Platform) Protect data and models at the source; Minutes to hours to restore Unified protection; Automated decision and failover; Guaranteed integrity Get Quote

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