Friday, September 20, 2024

Advanced ransomware protection for NetApp by Cleondris

Cleondris, a software solution provider from Switzerland launched in 2009, continues to deliver unique add-on software solutions for the NetApp ecosystem and filers. As a key partner for the filer reference, Christian Plattner, founder and CEO, joined for the second time The IT Press Tour early September in Istanbul, Turkey, to announce its new data security solution he planned to unveil in a few days in Las Vegas during the annual NetApp Insight user conference.

The company's mission is to offer advanced solutions to complement NetApp installed base and prevent cyber attacks to impact seriously business operations. The idea is not only to protect, detect but also prevent cyber threats with some new resilience models. 

The product named Cleondris ONE couples 3 key services into one unified solution, it is about backup + security and compliance. It works in 3 phases with some proactive detection, rapid recovery when a attack is real and stay aligned with some compliance rules.


The control server leverages NetApp's Fpolicy, from ONTAP 9, 10 and up, to control behavior of the Filer and other scale-out servers can be added to control large configurations. It supports on-premises systems but also Amazon FSx for NetApp and Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Beyond AI based ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection, the Cleondris solution adds some other methods around filename patterns, behavior analysis and file verification. Clearly backup is not enough as the threat can be also included in the backup image and therefore will infect again the system. Cleondris ONE is doing this with considering clean and safe images restoring only good data. The granularity is the file with a very simple status, good or bad, clean or infected I mean safe or encrypted. All is controlled by the Granular Cyber Restore.


The audit of filers made by Cleondris ONE via Fpolicy is secured with a blockchain model being protected by design. The solution analyzes behavior patterns and brand new attacks .

Obviously, the product leverages immutable backups and air-gapped snapshots. It is deployed as an OVA image on a dedicated appliance and offers a rich GUI to monitor all filers audits.

Cleondris ONE complements NetApp solution and provides advanced techniques, able to be sold by selected partners.

I will meet again Christian in a few days in Las Vegas and plan to record a specific episode for The French Storage Podcast to learn more about Cleondris ONE.

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