To help customers enhance their cyber resiliency at the storage layer, NetApp is releasing new data security capabilities including: Post-Quantum Cryptography: NetApp has embedded post-quantum cryptography into its storage portfolio for file and block workloads. NetApp’s secure-by-design storage keeps its customers’ data protected against quantum threats, fostering confidence among customers, partners, and regulators. By leveraging encryption algorithms standardized by NIST—a globally recognized standards body and authority—businesses can rely on a defense that is thoroughly tested and capable of carrying them into the future with quantum-ready storage. NetApp BlueXP Ransomware Protection Update: Updates to BlueXP ransomware protection strengthen the service’s ability to provide a comprehensive, orchestrated ransomware defense for NetApp ONTAP workloads. The new features include ransomware-specific role-based access controls, which empower security teams with granular permissions tailored to combat ransomware threats effectively, and support for ransomware protection for native cloud workloads. These advancements provide enterprises with enhanced control and protection against ransomware, safeguarding critical data and maintaining operational resilience in an increasingly complex threat landscape. NetApp BlueXP Backup and Recovery Workload Support: NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective integrated data protection service for ONTAP data. With these new updates, customers will benefit from a redesigned user interface that makes it easier to integrate and define a 3-2-1 data protection strategy for their workloads, including Microsoft SQL Server, VMware, and Kubernetes applications. NetApp Security Professional Services: NetApp is offering expanded professional security assessment and security hardening services to help customers evaluate and further tighten their security posture by enabling the built-in security capabilities in NetApp that help keep their data secure.