Licensing updates: You can sign up for a 90-day free trial, purchase a pay-as-you-go subscription for 1, 2, or 3 years with Amazon Web Services Marketplace, or bring your own NetApp license.

CIFS protocol: The service now supports on-premises ONTAP and Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS working environments using both NFS and CIFS protocols. The previous release supported only the NFS protocol.

Workload details: This release now provides more details in the workload information from the Protection pages for improved workload protection assessment. From the workload details, you can change the workload name, change the workload importance, review the currently assigned policy, and review the configured backup destinations.

Application-consistent and VM-consistent protection and recovery: You can now perform application-consistent protection with NetApp SnapCenter Software and VM-consistent protection with SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere, achieving a quiescent and consistent state to avoid potential data loss later if recovery is needed. If recovery is required, you can restore the application or VM back to its previous state and last transaction.

Ransomware protection strategies: If Snapshot or Backup policies do not exist on the workload, you can create a ransomware protection strategy, which can include the following policies that you create in this service:

Enable threat detection is now available using a third-party security and event management (SIEM) system. The Dashboard now shows a new recommendation to "Enable threat detection" which can be configured on the Settings page.

New detection statuses appear on the Protection page showing the status of the ransomware detection applied to the workload.

Download CSV files from the Dashboard, Protection, Alerts, and Recovery pages.

View documentation link is now included in the UI. You can access this documentation from the Dasbhoard vertical Actions option. Select What's new to view details in the Release Notes or Documentation to view the BlueXP ransomware protection documentation Home page.

Protection policy management: In addition to using predefined policies, you can now create, change, and delete policies. Learn more about managing policies.

Immutability on secondary storage (DataLock): You can now make the backup immutable in secondary storage using NetApp DataLock technology in the object store. Learn more about creating protection policies.

Automatic backup to NetApp StorageGRID: In addition to using AWS, you can now choose StorageGRID as your backup destination. Learn more about configuring backup destinations.

Additional features to investigate potential attacks: You can now view more forensic details to investigate the detected potential attack. Learn more about responding to a detected ransomware alert.

Recovery process. The recovery process was enhanced. Now, you can recover volume by volume, all volumes for a workload, or even a few files from the volume all in a single workflow. Learn more about recovering from a ransomware attack (after incidents have been neutralized).

View ransomware protection on all your workloads at a glance.

Gain insight into ransomware protection recommendations

Improve protection posture based on BlueXP ransomware protection recommendations.

Assign ransomware protection policies to protect your top workloads and high-risk data against ransomware attacks.

Monitor the health of your workloads against ransomware attacks looking for data anomalies.

Quickly assess the impact of ransomware incidents on your workload.

Recover from ransomware incidents intelligently by restoring data and ensuring that reinfection from stored data does not occur.