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 WebinarDid 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.The SafeMode Seance: A Cyber Security Haunting
Topic: How are you protecting your data from cyber threats? Are you both protecting your data, while also preparing to recover in the event that your organization is impacted by a cyber event? Join us for a spooky, cyber-focused meeting; a supportive and open forum where we’ll share scary stories, and explore solutions to ensure your data is protected from even the most ghoulish threats. This customer-driven discussion will focus on your experiences and challenges with protecting your data from a cyber attack. Pure Storage experts will offer insights and guidance to help you protect your data from the zombie apocalypse. Get Involved: We're looking for security-focused individuals who would be willing to attend and share their perspective on how they are helping their organization protect against cyber threats, and prepare in the case that recovery is needed. And all are welcome. You don't have to be a Pure Storage customer to attend. Join the community, talk to your peers, and have some fun. Agenda: Welcome, Introductions, Updates Customer Presentation - How to use Pure1 Assessments to review and improve your security posture Customer Presentation - Something strange is happening, but we don't know what it is. How I used Pure1 AI CoPilot along with Varonis to narrow the scope on the "strange stuff" Pure Presentation (w/ alliance partners) - SafeMode, Cyber Resiliency and Isolated Recovery Environments Panel/Q&A - Open discussion amongst the community; w/ security-focused individuals (hopefully) in attendance. Anonymous Group Feedback: Share your thoughts and experiences in regards to data protection. What’s working? What’s not? Where could you use some feedback from the community? Understanding Your Needs: What does your organization need to fully protect your data, and recover if you were ever attacked? We’ll help you pinpoint what truly matters. Exploration Circle: Hear from Pure’s subject matter experts on what they are seeing regarding the latest cyber security and cyber resiliency topics. Support & Resources: Find out where you can get additional help, training, and resources. Date: Wednesday, October 15th, 2-4pm ET. Location: Aces Pickleball, 2730 Maverick Dr, Norwood, OH 45212 (Factory 52) RSVP: https://info.purestorage.com/2025-Q3AMS-COMREPLCRCincinnatiPUGLP_01---Registration-Page.html Stick around after the Pure User Group meeting and enjoy Pies & Pints with Pure Storage, our partners, and fellow customers.
Know Thy Enemy: Threats to Cyber Resilience
April 2 | Register Now! "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu. Threat actors are the enemy to your operational resilience and ability to survive. Knowing their strategy and tactics will help you resist and recover from their malicious actions and keep critical workloads available. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Exploits and techniques your organization will face How AI is accelerating these threats Counter-measures to face the onslaught Register Now!MFA Downgrade Attacks: Good to know.
Short article on MFA downgrade attacks; provides the basics on what it is and how to defend. Good to know for considering your own policies and processes when folks lose devices. https://www.scworld.com/perspective/why-mfa-downgrade-attacks-could-be-the-next-ai-security-crisis
