Pure Storage expands cyber resilience through new innovations and deeper partnerships

Pure Storage, a global leader in advanced data storage technology and services, has announced new innovations in the Pure Storage platform, along with deeper partner integrations, which deliver significantly improved cyber resilience. This integrated and connected strategy provides organizations with a unified defense to proactively detect threats, protect against destructive attacks, and recover with confidence.

The standard approach to cyber defense—bolting on multi-vendor solutions that exclude the storage platform—does not work. This model leaves organizations vulnerable, missing crucial threat signals hidden in their data. Without native threat detection capabilities at the storage layer, it’s difficult to quickly detect and remediate attacks before they cripple critical infrastructure. The Pure Storage platform now provides built-in abilities to detect, respond and recover rapidly, and leverages an extensive partner ecosystem that integrates best-of-breed cyber security and data protection solutions.

Today’s news builds on Pure Storage’s recent introduction of the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC), a new architectural approach that helps organizations solve their data management challenges now and in the future. With an EDC architecture, IT teams centrally manage a virtualized cloud of data with unified control — spanning on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid — enabling intelligent, autonomous data management, and governance across the entire environment.

“The Pure Storage platform transforms your global storage environment into an Enterprise Data Cloud, supporting your AI and data security strategies,” said Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO, Pure Storage. “Data architecture is a strategic decision. Business success depends on leveraging data — and how teams can effectively manage and secure it across their global data estate.”

Stop attacks before they spread via an extended threat detection network

With increased activity in the ransomware and threat landscape, an organization’s storage platform must become an active component of security architecture – detecting and stopping threats at the data layer. Pure Storage is building an extended-threat network to share bi-directional threat signals with our ecosystem of partners. These detection capabilities then integrate seamlessly into existing built-in security tools and workflows.

• Pure Storage and CrowdStrike are working together to strengthen security in mission-critical storage environments. By ingesting storage data from Pure Storage arrays into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, joint customers will gain real-time visibility and automated response — instantly updating policies, isolating systems, and securing replication to stop attacks before they impact critical operations.
• Pure Storage has also partnered with Superna to provide file and user monitoring that specifically targets attacks like data exfiltration or double-extortion ransomware. Integrated with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade, Superna Data Security Essentials provides automated, real-time threat detection and response at the data layer. Compromised accounts are instantly locked when malicious activity is detected, and security policies are enforced automatically.

Recover data faster when an attack hits with proactive adaptive recovery

The real cost of an attack is downtime so organizations must be confident that applications can restart safely, and backup data can be trusted. But there is no one-size-fits-all solution; response and recovery capabilities need to dynamically adapt in the moment to keep businesses running.

• Created for organizations that want simplicity and confidence, Pure Storage and Veeam have partnered to create enterprise-wide fleet-wide visibility, automation, and clean data recovery. Delivered as a service with a cloud-like consumption model and backed by SLAs, the solution strengthens security, accelerates time to recovery, and reduces total cost of ownership.
• With the new Pure Protect Recovery Zones, clean recovery environments can be provisioned automatically. Isolated recovery environments (IREs) allow businesses to non-disruptively test and validate applications and data, or to remediate and recover from malicious attacks without impacting a production environment. The ability to immediately restore mission-critical applications during a cyber incident reduces operational impact and stress.

Threat actors, natural disasters, and even employee mistakes can all act as threats and enterprises need solutions that both protect and restore valuable data quickly. A storage platform must have an infrastructure with built-in cyber resilience that can also adapt to today’s changing times.