Threat protection-focused startup Deep Instinct Ltd. today announced Prevention for Storage, a new offering that applies a prevention-first approach to storage protection wherever data is stored.

Deep Instinct Prevention for Storage has been designed to tackle the issue wherein digital transformation is resulting in applications and services, employees and customers generating more data than ever before. The company argues that the consolidation of information from various endpoints into data repositories has created a one-stop-shop for attackers.

Offered as part of the Deep Instinct Prevention Platform, DPS fills gaps in data protection by applying a unique deep learning framework dedicated to cybersecurity. Whenever a file is added or changed in a storage environment, it is scanned immediately and malicious files are either quarantined or deleted to prevent execution.

Deep Instinct claims that legacy solutions are insufficient in protecting data as they provide low detection rates for unknown malware, increase the total cost of ownership, trigger an avalanche of high false positives and introduce complexity into the scanning process.

DPS differs from legacy tools by offering integration that ensures smooth deployment and interoperability, according to the company. The solution natively integrates with leading platforms, including Dell EMC CAVA and NetApp VScan.

The platform offers improved efficiency and lower total cost of ownership, with DPS offering security teams over 99% efficacy in preventing unknown threats, an under 0.1% false positive rate and less than 20 milliseconds of file scan time, according to the company.

Ease of management is another benefit, since DPS is managed via a single console alongside Deep Instinct for Endpoints and Prevention for Applications. The product supports easy-to-manage policies, enabling security teams to control and manage remediation actions, including quarantine or deletion of malicious files and the ability to restore from quarantine if needed.

The service includes support for the recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines that require organizations to provide annual cybersecurity risk management, strategy and disclosures of any cybersecurity incidents. All file scans are logged for easy tracking and reporting and for each malicious file, detailed events are sent to the management console, allowing further investigation of prevented attacks.

“In today’s evolving threat landscape, threat actors are already leveraging AI to create malware that continuously changes in order to evade detection from traditional cybersecurity tools,” said Chief Product Officer Yariv Fishman. “The only way to future-proof your organization and its data is to prioritize protection and security of unstructured storage systems – blocking attacks from ever landing in your environment.”

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