Ransomware attacks wherever it finds an opening — and the opening doesn’t have to be in an organization for it to be affected, as last year’s supply chain attacks have shown. Though an organization’s data storage solution isn’t typically considered part of their cybersecurity strategy, it certainly can help to secure critical assets.
Each layer of the information technology (IT) infrastructure stack — which includes servers, networks and storage — plays a role in helping maintain a strong security posture, and storage is no exception. Multiple types and presentations of storage are deployed today including network attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and object storage, each of them optimized for different types of data, workloads and use cases.