AI-powered threat detection and mitigation inside the file platform. Recovery nothing can delete.

Industry research consistently finds that the overwhelming majority of ransomware attacks target backups, because destroying the way back is what converts an incident into a payment. Ask where the recovery copies live, what can delete them, and whether an administrator credential is enough to do it. If the answer involves a retention setting somebody configured, it is a policy rather than a property. CloudFS offers:

• Every file version is written as an encrypted WORM object — immutable from the first write, with no configuration necessary
• Recovery points cannot be modified or deleted, including by a credentialed attacker
• Changed data is written as new immutable blocks every 60 seconds, so a clean version exists within a minute of any write; snapshots are named recovery points on top of that, retained by policy for as long needed

Signature-based tools catch what has been seen before and flood the console with the rest. What matters is how quickly unusual behavior is recognized as unusual, and whether recognizing it costs you performance — some approaches route analysis to the cloud, others put agents on endpoints. CloudFS with Threat Control delivers:

• AI builds a behavioral fingerprint for every user, so deviation is measured against that person rather than a signature list
• Encryption, mass deletion, bulk creation, erratic access and exfiltration flagged in real time
• Patent-pending distributed detection — no cloud round trip, no endpoint agent, no measurable impact on user workloads
• Compromised accounts disabled and affected areas quarantined automatically

This is the question that separates the competition, and it is rarely on a datasheet. Some detection is scoped to Windows file sharing and does not watch what arrives over other protocols. Some runs only where an endpoint agent is installed. And almost none of it accounts for the permissions that decide what a compromised account can reach in the first place, or for the AI tools now reading the same estate.

• CloudFS — detection built into the file system rather than bolted alongside it, with geofencing and access rules enforced at the protocol layer across SMB, NFS, and S3
• Panzura Symphony — the permissions that define reach, analyzed and remediated across CloudFS and third-party estates alike
• Panzura Data Services — one audit feed covering every path, streamed to your SIEM and compliance platform together
• Panzura Nexus — AI retrieval governed by file permissions themselves

Threat Control. When behavior crosses the line, the compromised account is disabled and the affected areas are quarantined automatically — no waiting for someone to read an alert. Because detection is per-user and behavioral, containment is scoped to the account and the files it touched rather than taking a share offline. Incident evidence is logged as it happens, and audit events stream to your SIEM from the same feed everything else uses.

Panzura Data Services. Global search finds files that were deleted, moved or renamed across the whole estate, and file activity audit shows who — or what — touched them. The incident record narrows the window before anyone starts restoring, so the question stops being "when were we last clean" and becomes "which folder, and from when."

Panzura CloudFS. Point-in-time recovery to any file or folder, restored in place from a named snapshot. Unaffected work stays where it is. Any site can serve any data, so a location taken offline during the incident is not a separate recovery project afterward.