US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 23 for "Using decoy datasets for cyber threat detection" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,780, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Using decoy datasets for cyber threat detection" was invented by David Goncalves (Acushnet, Mass.), Evan Jones (Glenville, N.Y.) and Paul Linstead (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage node maintains storage objects that contain decoy datasets that are used to detect cyber-attacks. The decoy datasets may be deployed at logical block addresses (LBAs) including the first and last LBAs of the LBA range of the storage object. Real active data may be stored on the storage object with the decoy datasets. A cyber-attack is detected based on r...