Backups are essential, but on their own they don’t give you full ransomware resilience. They typically don’t:

• Detect attacks in real time. Most backup tools don’t continuously monitor for encryption, mass deletion, or suspicious user behavior on primary storage.
• Automate response. Without automation, your team must manually identify an attack, decide what to do, and execute recovery steps. That’s slow and error-prone.
• Support fast, clean recovery. Industry averages show that workload recovery can take about 7 days, and even then data may not be fully recovered or free of malware.

NetApp Ransomware Resilience is designed to close these gaps at the storage layer—the last line of defense:

• Proactive protection: It automatically identifies the types of data in your NetApp storage, maps them to workloads, assesses sensitivity and criticality, and recommends protection policies. With one click, those policies are applied at scale.
• Real-time detection: It continuously monitors ONTAP storage for file encryption, mass deletion, and suspicious user behavior, using AI-based detection on primary storage.
• Automated response: When an attack is suspected, it automatically creates a Snapshot copy to prevent data loss and can block the user to stop the attack.
• Fast, guided recovery: It provides a guided workflow to restore volumes, files, applications, or VMs—often within minutes—helping you meet your RTO/RPO objectives.

In short, NetApp Ransomware Resilience helps you move from “we have backups” to a workload-centric, end-to-end ransomware program that covers assessment, detection, response, and recovery.

NetApp Ransomware Resilience is built to monitor your ONTAP-based workloads continuously and act quickly when something looks wrong.

Here’s how it works in practice:

• Continuous monitoring: The service watches for file and user behavior anomalies on your primary storage, including:
  • Unusual file encryption patterns
  • Mass file deletions
  • Suspicious user activity that may indicate a breach
• AI-based detection: It uses advanced AI-based ransomware detection directly on your primary storage, so potential attacks can be identified quickly rather than after the fact.
• Immediate protection actions: When an attack is suspected, the service can:
  • Create a Snapshot copy automatically to preserve a clean recovery point and limit data loss.
  • Block the user associated with the suspicious activity to stop the attack from spreading.
• Incident visibility: It generates incident reports to support forensics and integrates with leading SIEM solutions, so your security operations team can correlate events and refine your response playbooks.

Because all of this is orchestrated from a single control plane, your team can detect, contain, and investigate ransomware incidents faster, with fewer manual steps and less reliance on scarce specialist skills.

NetApp Ransomware Resilience is designed to simplify and accelerate recovery while giving you the evidence you need to show that your organization is prepared.

Fast, guided recovery

• Guided workflows: After an attack is contained, the service walks you through the end-to-end recovery process, reducing the risk of missteps during a stressful event.
• Flexible restore options: You can restore from Snapshots at the volume or file level, depending on the scope of the incident.
• Application and VM consistency: For applications and VMs, it can restore them to their previous state and last transaction, helping you get back to normal operations faster.
• Clean restore for fileshares: A dedicated feature curates a recovery point from the most recent version of every unencrypted file across multiple snapshots, removes malware, and then restores data to production. This helps minimize data loss and prevent reinfection.

Readiness, compliance, and business assurance

• Readiness drills: You can run ransomware readiness drills to validate your response playbook and refine your processes before a real incident.
• Proof for stakeholders: These drills, along with incident reports and posture assessments, help you demonstrate preparedness to management, auditors, and regulators.
• Improved security posture: The service continuously assesses your ONTAP workload protection posture and provides recommendations to close gaps and reduce risk, so you’re not just reacting—you’re improving over time.

By combining proactive assessment, automated protection, real-time detection, and guided recovery, NetApp Ransomware Resilience helps you reimagine your ransomware strategy from ad hoc response to a structured, auditable program that supports both business continuity and compliance.