François Esnol-Feugeas, CEO and co-founder of Oxibox, argues that backup must evolve from a passive recovery tool into an active cybersecurity layer. “It has to be built in from the start.”At the heart of Oxibox’s architecture is its Universal Data Protection (UDP) filesystem. Acting as a proxy between backup software and the underlying file system, UDP performs real-time behavioural analysis at the POSIX level. This zero-trust model is designed to be compatible with leading backup vendors, such as Veeam, Commvault, and Acronis. For example, while Veeam may append data to existing files during incremental backups, UDP knows which sequences are valid and which are suspicious.