Index Engines to showcase AI cyber resilience at Gartner

Index Engines is set to showcase its CyberSense platform at a major infrastructure and operations conference as demand grows for tools that validate data integrity and support recovery after ransomware attacks.

The New Jersey-based cyber resilience company will exhibit at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Las Vegas. The event focuses on cloud, data centre and operations strategies for large enterprises.

Index Engines plans to demonstrate how its technology analyses stored data for signs of corruption. The company positions this approach as a way for organisations to identify clean data sets that can support recovery after an attack.

CyberSense applies artificial intelligence to what the company describes as continuous forensic validation of data in production storage and backup repositories. The platform monitors for anomalous changes that may signal ransomware encryption or other malicious activity.

Index Engines describes this approach as a shift from traditional backup and recovery. The company argues that recovery processes that rely only on restore points and backup logs may miss subtle corruption and can risk reinfection.

By focusing on content-level analysis, CyberSense seeks to identify the last known good copy of data within secondary storage. The platform then flags those points for recovery teams.

The company says its validation process is designed to run on an ongoing basis rather than only during backup windows. It argues that this creates a layer of monitoring that sits alongside existing storage and backup systems.

Index Engines states that CyberSense offers a service level agreement of 99.99% for detecting ransomware corruption. The firm targets customers that store large volumes of critical data and that operate complex hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Ransomware focus

The Las Vegas conference session will place ransomware response at the centre of the discussion. The company plans to highlight recovery processes that assume defences will sometimes fail and that restoration decisions then become critical.

Index Engines' Chief Marketing Officer, Jim McGann, will lead an expo session titled "Cyberstorage Resilience: AI-Powered Data Integrity to Minimize the Impact of Ransomware." He will speak to an audience of infrastructure and operations leaders attending the event.

The session will examine how storage environments can act as an element of defence during and after an incident. It will also outline methods for detecting data corruption quickly and restoring operations from verified clean copies.

McGann plans to discuss the role of forensic analytics in identifying when ransomware activity first affected datasets. The approach aims to narrow the recovery window and limit data loss.

The company also intends to address risk of reinfection from restoring data that contains dormant or undetected malware. Its messaging emphasises validation of data before it re-enters production environments.

Index Engines frames this as part of a wider shift in cyber resilience planning. The focus moves from prevention alone towards assumptions of breach and rapid restoration of core systems.

Data integrity checks

CyberSense examines data for behavioural and structural anomalies. These may include changes in file entropy, unusual modification patterns, or unexpected deletions and encryptions across large numbers of files.

The platform analyses this information to determine whether corruption is likely. It can then alert security and infrastructure teams and mark affected snapshots or backup copies as unsafe.

This level of analysis aims to give organisations increased confidence in choosing a restoration point. It also seeks to reduce the time and cost associated with trial-and-error recovery.

Index Engines positions the platform as compatible with a range of storage and backup technologies. The company works with enterprises that operate on-premises infrastructure as well as public cloud services.

The vendor expects that infrastructure and operations teams will view data integrity validation as part of standard cyber recovery planning. It argues that traditional strategies that focus only on backup frequency are no longer sufficient as ransomware techniques evolve.

Industry analysts have highlighted a shift in ransomware from encryption alone towards data theft and extortion. This change places additional pressure on organisations to understand the state of their stored data at any given time.

Index Engines states that CyberSense seeks to address this by providing detailed insight into how and when data changes. The company says this helps organisations investigate incidents and document the impact on information assets.

McGann said the pace and persistence of attacks means organisations increasingly judge their resilience on outcomes after a breach. He links this directly to recovery speed and data trust.

"Resilience is not measured by whether an attack can be prevented. It's measured by how confidently and quickly you recover," said Jim McGann, CMO at Index Engines. "By applying AI and forensic validation to the recovery process, organizations can turn their storage environment into an active defense layer that ensures clean, uncompromised data is always available."