Brandon Willitts & Leerun Laizerovich | Pure Accelerate 2026

In this interview from Pure Accelerate 2026, Brandon Willits, director of product management at Everpure, joins Leerun Laizerovich, assistant vice president of partner technical solutions and design at Commvault, to talk with theCUBE's Christophe Bertrand and Alison Kosik about the convergence of cybersecurity and data recovery as a board-level enterprise resilience imperative. Willits and Laizerovich examine how the threat landscape has pushed RTO and RPO from IT metrics into boardroom mandates, with the CSO increasingly functioning as the organization's chief recovery officer. Willits makes the case for repositioning storage from a passive witness into an active defender — connecting the network layer down to the data layer to contain lateral movement and accelerate clean recovery. The conversation also explores the Everpure and Commvault partnership, including how deep API integration and combined telemetry are designed to close the gap between threat detection and recovery. Willits details a real-world wiper attack on a Fortune 100 organization in which adversaries harvested credentials, moved laterally and wiped 80,000 devices, including employee-owned endpoints. Using Everpure's Safe Mode snapshot technology alongside Commvault's recovery tools, a non-storage engineer was trained in under 30 minutes and the business was restored within 24 hours. Laizerovich notes that highly regulated industries like finance and healthcare have built compliance-driven frameworks that serve as a blueprint for other sectors. Both guests close with concrete guidance: validate recovery against live RTO and RPO targets on a regular cadence and break down the silos between security, infrastructure and recovery teams before agentic AI workloads expose the gaps in legacy defenses. Find more SiliconANGLE news and analysis https://siliconangle.com/ Follow theCUBE's wall-to-wall event coverage https://siliconangle.com/events/ Learn about the latest theCUBE events https://www.thecube.net/ 00:00 - Intro 00:06 - Kickoff to Pure Accelerate 2026: Key Insights and Leadership Dialogues 02:41 - Collaborative Cybersecurity Solutions at Data Crossroads 06:34 - Changing Team Dynamics and Personas 09:02 - Industry Leaders in Cyber Resilience 11:53 - Role of AI in Cybersecurity 14:13 - Proactive Strategies and Future Outlooks for CSOs and CIOs #theCUBE #PureAccelerate #theCUBEresearch #Everpure #Commvault #CyberResilience