Recent Discussions
Zero Trust in Practice: What Actually Breaks in Real Environments
Most Zero Trust discussions sound great on paper—but implementation tells a different story. From recent hybrid deployments, here’s what actually breaks: Identity gaps Service accounts without MFA Legacy apps bypassing Conditional Access Device trust issues -Non-compliant endpoints still accessing critical apps -BYOD without proper posture checks Network assumptions Internal traffic still implicitly trusted Flat VLANs enabling lateral movement What worked well: Enforcing Conditional Access (device + user risk) ZTNA replacing VPN for application-level access -Micro-segmentation (Fortinet / host-based controls) Key takeaway: Zero Trust is not a product—it’s a continuous enforcement model across identity, device, and network layers.Everpure Protect - Tools for Network Configuration
A key workflow item, especially when building Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), Clean Rooms, test or production Disaster Recovery, or any other environment personality, is to reconfigure the network. Doing so automatically and per a plan is important to an automated, fast, and predictable workflow. We have built Everpure Protect Tools, which is a lightweight tool, registered with VMtools within a guest, that allows us to automate network configuration changes, per the individual Recovery Plan. Included in the download is a Powershell script for Windows, or a Shell script for Linux/Unix, which registered our tool with VMtools to perform the changes. The scripts can be loaded and ran manually in each guest, or distributed and executed as part of a workflow such as Microsoft MCM/SCCM. Everpure Protect Tools Once deployed, network changes on a per-VM or per-Recovery Plan basis will be automatically performed based upon the unique settings in the Recovery Plan being executed.Layered Resilience
Accelerate 2026 is approaching, and I’ve been preparing to speak on a cyber resilience panel. It’s prompted me to reflect on how prepared my organization really is—and I’m curious where others stand. This topic is never far from the headlines and feels like a great discussion point for this community or even a future meet-up. Here’s a snapshot of the layers we currently have in place: Immutable local Snapshots Immutable replication to a secondary site SRM Local WORM copy backups Auxiliary long-term WORM backups Air-gapped replication copy Investigating Cloud snap and Pure Protect This doesn't even include other tools like Varonis, Defender, Cortex...etc. What layers are you implementing today, and what are you working on to better protect your data? Sharing our successes and failures makes us all stronger! -Charlie
Why Cyber Resilience Requires Recovery Not Just Backups: CISO and Field Perspectives
15 Minutes---Webinar from Everpure's Rick Orloff, CISO, and Scott Taylor, Director of Cyber Resilience Field Solution Architects on Cyber Recovery Strategy Resilience isn't just prevention—it’s about the "Minimum Viable Business." At RSAC 2026, Everpure’s Rick Orloff and Scott Taylor explained why recovery fails without understanding dependencies. Prioritize critical data and cross-functional collaboration to minimize revenue disruption. Stop treating backup as the goal; make rapid, strategic recovery your mission. Link to WebinarPure 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 MonteithDid anyone attend RSA 2026?
Everpure exhibited and attended at RSA 2026, the biggest annual gathering of cyber security and cyber security professional and companies. Besides an booth, we presented and sponsored several activities. Let us know if you attended and share what your observed with the community. Here are key trends noted by Everpure at the RSA 2026 conference: The RSA 2026 Narrative RSA 2026 signaled a significant shift in the industry’s mindset, moving away from reactive defense toward a proactive business configuration that leverages "active" systems to sense, pivot, and self-correct. Agentic AI: We are officially in an "AI vs. AI" war. RSAC 2026 highlighted that adversaries now have the upper hand, leveraging Agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities that have remained undiscovered by humans for 10+ years. Because human-led defense cannot keep pace with machine-speed exploits, the focus has shifted from "human-in-the-loop" to "human-on-the-loop." This model relies on autonomous, self-healing systems to isolate threats and restore environments in real-time, allowing humans to act as strategic governors of AI insights rather than manual controllers of the recovery process. In addition, identity security must deal with emerging polymorphic social engineering attacks. MTTA: JPMorgan introduced Mean Time to Adapt, prioritizing real-time posture reconfiguration over static recovery (RTO) to neutralize active threats. Data Integrity: Bruce Schneier identified a "resilience gap" from silent AI corruption, making integrity checks a mandatory prerequisite for trustworthy recovery. Quantum Readiness: Resilience now requires migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to shield long-lived data from "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" tactics. Defense to Disruption: "Active Defense" aims to increase attacker costs and efforts. Future Threats: Panels warned of "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" quantum risks and polymorphic social engineering, while honoring quantum networking breakthroughs.Pure 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 Monteith
