Enterprise Storage and Data Protection Summit

Storage architecture debt is accumulating faster than recovery efforts can keep up with. Each wave of new storage solutions has layered over unresolved vulnerabilities from previous generations, leaving critical gaps that persist beneath the surface.

Legacy storage decisions are now under pressure from Zero Trust, sovereign cloud mandates and AI-native infrastructure. Past choices dictate your ability to meet 2026 compliance deadlines and recover from sophisticated attacks. With GDPR enforcement ramping up and DORA penalties reaching €10 million, the stakes are clear. Ransomware now targets backup repositories in over 90% of incidents. The real measure is not performance, but whether your architecture can demonstrate data integrity, enforce jurisdiction controls and support AI workloads without introducing new risks.

Abilio Oliveira, Chief Technology Officer at Episteme Digital, will expose the persistent storage vulnerabilities that undermine modern IT environments. He will deliver a proven framework for building resilient architectures—ensuring you can secure, scale, and support AI workloads without compromise.

Key Takeaways:
- Identify five persistent trust gaps in storage architecture: metadata exposure, access control inheritance, incomplete audit trails, replication integrity gaps, and unvalidated recovery assumptions. Use a practical assessment matrix to evaluate and address each gap.
- Resolve regulatory conflicts between the CLOUD Act and GDPR. Enforce data residency, maintain encryption key sovereignty, and control cross-border replication.
- Ready storage infrastructure for AI-native workloads. Guarantee vector database immutability, model versioning, and training data chain-of-custody.
- Eliminate storage-layer attack vectors often missed by security frameworks: protocol exploitation, backup agent privilege escalation, snapshot poisoning, and replication channel interception.