The days of treating backup and recovery as a bolt-on or an afterthought are long gone since threats, such as ransomware, are continuously wreaking havoc.

By automating vulnerability assessment for storage and backup using a product called StorageGuard, Continuity Inc. addresses this challenge by enhancing security poster management, enabling businesses to be cyber resilient and providing them with the ability to recover in case of an attack, according to Gil Hecht (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Continuity.

“Wouldn’t you want a product to test your storage and backup and do all that automatically and enjoy the economies of scale of a company?” Hecht asked. “That is exactly what StorageGuard does. [It] is the product that we have to help enterprises guarantee secure configuration across everything that participates in storage and backup so that hackers will not be able to get in and will not be able to do much damage even if they manage to get in.”

Hecht spoke with theCUBE industry analyst Dave Vellante at the Cyber Resiliency Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They explored how Continuity elevates storage and backup security using StorageGuard’s advanced capabilities. (* Disclosure below.)

Generative AI is a double-edged sword in cybersecurity

Since generative artificial intelligence augments human capacity, it can be used by bad actors to enhance attacks, and this jeopardizes the cybersecurity field. Security companies, however, can use this cutting-edge technology to be creative at an infinite scale, according to Hecht.

“Generative AI and large language models are an amazing revolution,” he said. “We all integrate it into our products, but specifically in the security world, it’s an unbelievable huge threat. If you look at how hackers operate today, they use lots of manpower in order to be creative in how they attack. Basically, you can, instead of hiring lots of people, do gen AI and LLM to be infinitely creative in both human engineering. I think if we thought that security is important until now, security is going to be 10 times or 20 times more important.”

Since storage and backup are at times ignored, StorageGuard fills this void by helping enterprises configure their recoverability correctly. The solution also addresses clustering issues, because cyber resilience is all about recoverability and continuity, Hecht pointed out.

“It really has three key capabilities,” he said. “One, it knows how to automatically detect CVEs in storage and backup and provide remediation advice. Number two, we automatically, with StorageGuard, detect security, misconfiguration and deviation from best-practice security standards. Number three, we provide with all the compliance capabilities required by the enterprise to be able to exhibit to their internal auditors, external auditors, etc., that they are protected.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Cyber Resiliency Summit:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the “Cyber Resiliency Summit.” Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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