A Cyberattack Won't Start With A Warning. It Starts With Your Files
Hitachi Vantara, Friday, October 17th, 2025
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It's a timely reminder that the files you touch, share, and rely on every day often hold your most valuable data and are exactly what attackers are after.
Unstructured data, like spreadsheets, documents, logs, and backups, makes up the majority of your business data. That's what makes it the prime target for ransomware.
Ransomware moves fast - encrypting data, escalating access, and sabotaging recovery before your teams can even assess the blast radius. It zeroes in on unstructured data for a reason. Because that's where your business-critical files live. When attackers go after shares, snapshots, and backups, they're trying to cut off the lifelines your team depends on to fight back. For organizations managing large-scale NAS environments, the pressure to stay resilient has never been greater.