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Accelerate Breakout Replay: Pure Protect: Bringing Orchestration and Simplicity to Enterprise Cyber Resilience
Explore Pure Protect: simplify DR, cut costs, and boost cyber resilience with cloud-scale recovery and seamless security integration. Speakers: Suresh Madhu Chad Monteith Eric Simpson, Ark DOT https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/pure-protect-bringing-orchestration-and-simplicity-to-enterprise/6375807764112.html
Cyber resilience news from last week
Here is a summary of some of the major events: Colt Technology Services: The UK-based telecommunications company, Colt, experienced a ransomware attack that resulted in a multi-day outage of some of its services, including hosting and its online platforms. The Warlock ransomware gang claimed responsibility, asserting they stole over a million documents. Security researchers suggest the attack may have exploited a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability. Workday Data Breach: Workday, a provider of human resources software, confirmed that some customer information was compromised in a social engineering attack. This incident is part of a broader campaign by the ShinyHunters threat group targeting companies' Salesforce instances by impersonating IT support staff via voice phishing. Other companies affected by this campaign include Air France and KLM. Manpower Data Breach: Staffing giant Manpower disclosed a data breach that affected nearly 145,000 individuals. The incident, which occurred in late 2024 but was disclosed this past week, was caused by a ransomware attack. US Justice Department Takedown: In a significant law enforcement action, the U.S. Department of Justice announced coordinated actions against the BlackSuit (Royal) ransomware group. This operation included the seizure of servers, domains, and over $1 million in cryptocurrency, dealing a critical blow to the group's infrastructure. N-able Vulnerabilities: Security researchers identified hundreds of internet-exposed N-able N-central instances that are unpatched and vulnerable to two recently disclosed exploits. These vulnerabilities, which N-able has since patched, have been added to CISA's catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, making them a high-priority threat for ransomware actors.Accelerate Breakout Replay: How the Pure Storage Platform Delivers Visibility and Resilience before, during, and after a Cyberattack
See how Pure Storage enhances visibility and resilience before, during, and after a cyberattack to strengthen your security posture. Speakers: Jason Walker Andy Stone https://www.purestorage.com/video/webinars/pure-storage-platform-delivers-visibility-resilience/6375799650112.htmlPure Protect - My License is Active, What Next?
Now that you have your Pure Protect License for either Premium Edition or Community Edition, what is the next step? The first step, and commonly missed, is to add yourself the "DRaaS Global Admin" in Pure1 IAM. To do so, choose the Application Switcher (next to your user profile in the top right), and choose IAM Once their, add to your username the "DRaaS Global Admin" role. A user with existing Pure1 Admin privileges maybe required to perform this action. Once complete, you will see "Create Deployment" page under "DRaaS | Deployments" on the left navigation bar. I advise reading through the quick start guide on Pure1 Support portal to get an idea of the few questions and pieces of information needed to be successful. These include IP and network information for the appliance, ensuring firewall ports are opened for the appliance, vcenter service account credentials, and if you are using AWS, credentials and network information. Reach out with feedback or questions via this community portal or your Pure account representatives! ChadPure Protect - Network and Firewall Requirements
An important topic with deploying Pure Protect, both Premium and Community Editions, is what ports and network settings are required for it to work? We maintain a page answering all of those questions in the Pure1 Support portal! Within the Pure Protect Quick Start documentation, which is great information to review prior to a deployment, we include a page "Network Firewall Requirements." This details outbound communications to Pure1, to vCenter and ESXi, to AWS if used, and between sites when using VMware to VMware workflows. Log in with your Pure1 Customer credentials, and reach out with any questions! - Chad MonteithPure Protect //Community Edition - Now Available!
We are excited to release Pure Protect //Community Edition! Now available in the Pure1 Catalog, Community Edition provides Pure1 users with the ability to use and test Pure Protect quickly and easily. Community Edition today includes a fully featured release of Pure Protect, limited to 5 TiB of protected VM's, and provides community support through this forum! When you are ready to move up to Premium Edition, you gain full 24x7 phone support from Pure Storage, as well as the ability to protect more than 5 TiB of VM's. To start with Community Edition, Log in to Pure1, under Marketplace choose Catalog, and then the Pure Protect catalog offering. We look forward to hearing from you and how you are using Pure Protect //Community Edition! - Chad MonteithInnovation @ Pure Accelerate 2025
After five months at Pure Storage, I just attended my first Pure//Accelerate Conference. Pure//Accelerate is our annual gathering of esteemed customers and partners, where we learn from each other how to improve ‘everything data’ with advanced, performant, secure, and resilient storage. A major highlight of Pure//Accelerate 2025 was the announcement of the Pure Storage Enterprise Data Cloud. This represents the next generation of storage capabilities, helping organizations leverage their data for operational excellence and efficiency. Enterprise Data Cloud delivers a unified, AI-driven control plane—via Pure Fusion—that allows organizations to manage and govern data across hybrid estates with cloud-like automation, built-in cyber resilience, and global observability. With my focus on cyber resilience and cybersecurity, I found the cyber resilience announcements especially exciting. First, we announced an integration with Rubrik’s Security Cloud to deliver the first-ever near-zero RTO solution. Rubrik and Pure Storage now combine immutable snapshots with threat analytics for rapid, trusted cyber recovery. Second, we announced integration with CrowdStrike LogScale. Pure Storage and CrowdStrike now offer on-prem storage with LogScale for fast analytics, threat hunting, and secure log retention. These announcements were extremely well received by both customers and partners. Another innovation generating buzz was our new Pure Protect capabilities. At Pure//Accelerate 2025, Pure Storage unveiled enhancements to Pure Protect, advancing cyber resilience and disaster recovery with a layered architecture that includes secure snapshots, isolated recovery environments, and cloud-based clean-room orchestration. The solution introduces policy-driven automation to streamline operations and reduce dependence on professional services, while optimizing VMware environments for increased efficiency and cost control. These advancements aim to simplify recovery, accelerate response, and strengthen data protection across hybrid infrastructures. In summary, Pure Protect can serve as the control and automation plane for layered resilience. On that note, many of my discussions with customers centered around how to leverage SafeMode Snapshots for immediate return to operations following an incident—whether from a disaster, technology outage, or cyberattack. Coming from a cybersecurity background, I was genuinely impressed by our customers' security acumen. Their expertise goes far beyond storage architectures, protocols, capacity planning, and performance. Many demonstrated strong knowledge of preventative and zero-trust controls, along with a deep understanding of immutability and indelibility. There was also strong interest in logging, anomaly detection, and especially our integrations with SecOps and UEBA. I fielded many questions about Varonis, Superna, and CrowdStrike, and how these powerful solutions help safeguard critical data assets. Superna, a sponsor of the event, also had strong attendance and interest in their breakout session. Our data protection partners—Rubrik, Commvault, and Veeam—also generated significant interest and hosted well-attended breakout sessions. Customers were particularly eager to learn how our solutions integrate seamlessly with these partners to enhance the capabilities of the Enterprise Data Cloud through robust, automated data protection workflows. The combination of our high-performance storage architecture and Pure Fusion automation impressed attendees by enabling streamlined management, rapid recovery, and enhanced security for enterprise-critical data. These integrations reassured customers that they can rely on a comprehensive, scalable solution that supports evolving data protection needs while simplifying operational complexity. This was an impressive event that made me proud to be part of Pure Storage. Resorts World was a fantastic venue, the Pure Storage event team executed flawlessly, and the keynote presentations were outstanding. If you didn’t make it this year, be sure to join us in 2026 back at Resorts World! Learn more about the Pure//Accelerate 2025 announcements at: https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate.htmlDisaster Recovery for Your VMware Environments: Pure Protect
Hey everyone, I wanted to share some exciting news about updates to Pure Protect. We know how critical it is to protect your VMware environments, and our product is designed to make disaster recovery simpler and more efficient for you. We have added support for VMware as a recovery target, new interface, along with many other updates. If you are not familiar with Pure Protect, here are a few things that it offers to protect your applications in the event of a disaster. What Pure Protect Offers You: Flexible Recovery: You can choose to recover to AWS or a secondary VMware site. Application-Aware Protection: It protects common Microsoft applications like SQL, Active Directory, and Exchange. If you have VMware Tools installed, it takes application-consistent snapshots; otherwise, it takes a crash-consistent snapshot. Broad Compatibility: You don't need to be an existing Pure Storage customer or have FlashArray, Cloud Block Store, or FlashBlade. Pure Protect supports both Pure and non-Pure environments. Pure1 Integration: The service is managed through Pure1. If you're not already a Pure1 user, we'll get you set up. Your Data, Your Control (Cloud): You use your own AWS account for the service, and AWS will bill you directly for your usage. This approach ensures you maintain full ownership and control over your data, addressing concerns about data custody, residency, and sovereignty. For VMware, you already have control of that environment, so no concerns about control there. Automated AWS Setup: Pure Protect automates the entire AWS target site installation process with a single click, setting up things like VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, and S3 buckets. Multi-Site Protection: If you have multiple VMware vCenter sites, Pure Protect can protect them all to a single AWS account, secondary VMware location. Manual Failover: Failovers are initiated by you, on-demand. There's no automatic failover feature. This means you are in total control of your environment, run tests on-demand to ensure everything runs as expected. This gives you the peace of mind that when a disaster happens, you can fail over with confidence. Things to Keep in Mind: Pure Protect is a disaster recovery service, is not a backup software. It focuses on getting your application infrastructure back up and running, rather than performing log backups. We use orchestration for network mapping, resizing as needed, and scripting will be available soon. Licensing is based on the front-end application capacity of your protected VMs, measured in TiBs as reported by VMware. How to Learn More: Demos or PoCs: If you're interested in seeing Pure Protect in action or trying it out, please reach out, or check out the page on www.purestorage.com/draas. Have Questions? We're here to answer your questions. We're really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Pure Protect and how it can benefit your operations. -LanceA simple way to visualize the need for Cyber Resilience
The need for cyber resilience is persistent. I use these sites to help me show folks that attacks and malicious activity are non-stop!!! Real-time and graphical, a good reminder to keep Cyber Reliance as a top priority: Checkpoint: https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/ BitDefender: https://threatmap.bitdefender.com/ Radware: https://livethreatmap.radware.com/maintenance/maintenance.html And for a summary on Ransomware, Ransomware Live: https://www.ransomware.live/
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