Various forms of generative and agentic AI are being deployed both by threat actors and security professionals in the threat landscape. Channel Insider spoke with Neil DiMartinis, CRO at Index Engine, about its latest patented process and why AI is the new normal in security.
Patented AI process promises to automate the understanding of and response to ransomware attacks
In July, Index Engine announced it had been awarded a patent for the process by which its AI solution is trained to identify anomalies in an organization’s data and then provide a clean version of it when needed for recovery.
Developed in the company’s CyberSense Research Lab, this breakthrough automates the ingestion and behavioral analysis of ransomware variants in a controlled environment, enabling continuous training of AI/ML models on real-world attack patterns.
The company says the result is faster corruption detection to maintain currency with the evolving threat landscape, smarter recovery decisions, and stronger data integrity for organizations battling today’s sophisticated cybercriminals.
“Cyber resilience requires more than reactive tools—it demands AI that’s been rigorously trained, tested, and proven in real-world conditions,” said Chief Product Officer Geoff Barrall in a statement. “Our patented automated facility downloads, detonates, and monitors real ransomware to continuously train and refine our models—something no simulation can replicate. This patent validates our unique approach and reinforces our leadership in cyber resilience.”
Index Engine’s leading solution, CyberSense, provides a 99.99% SLA for detecting ransomware corruption, according to the company.
“What this patent does is validate everything we do,” DiMartinis said. “No one is really doing what we’re doing in the marketplace because we focus on data at the content level. We leverage AI very specifically within Cybersense and apply it to the customer’s environment.”
Why DiMartinis stresses a targeted AI approach to recovery
DiMaritnis acknowledges that it can be hard for the company to market its AI technology because it is built and deployed exclusively within Cybersense for the specific purpose of layering it over customers’ data to detect anomalies and ultimately provide a clean source for recovery.
That focus on recovery post-event, rather than solely on preventing attacks from occurring, is also a strong market differentiator for a product in a sea of AI-enabled security solutions.
“We always say, it’s not a matter of if you’re going to get attacked, it’s when,” DiMartinis said. “Attackers are becoming more advanced, and the sheer volume of types of attacks is increasing all the time. For an organization to try to stay ahead of all of it, I would venture to say that’s virtually impossible now.”
“We believe that without a strong focus on how you’ll recover, all that work you’re doing on prevention, while it’s important, isn’t solving the whole problem. If you can’t recover once an attack has happened, that’s the greatest exposure risk of them all,” DiMartinis added.
Leveraging OEM alliances and an expanding partner network to reach ‘best year yet’
Cybersense is available as an embedded vault component through major OEM solutions from Dell, Infinidat, Hitachi Vantara, and others. DiMartinis told Channel Insider that those OEM agreements have seen a substantial increase in attachment rates to deals over the past year, and that the increasing demand for security recovery solutions within infrastructure and storage offerings is fueling a new stage of growth.
To capitalize on the market opportunity, DiMartinis states that the company is actively pursuing additional OEM relationships, as well as targeting channel partners with recovery services within their portfolios.
“We want to work with partners to help them understand what Cybersense can bring to their recovery services, because we know there are a lot of security-focused partners who offer recovery services and want to support customers post-attack,” DiMartinis said.
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