US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 21 for "Low resource nearline attack detection" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,290, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Low resource nearline attack detection" was invented by Elik Levin (Modi'in, Israel) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting security issues in a storage array are disclosed. A service receives, from a host, an indication of compromise (IOC) reflecting that the host is suspected of being compromised. In response, the service refrains from turning on inline IO checking. In lieu of turning on the inline IO checking, the service triggers monitoring of previous snapshots stored on a specific storage device in the ar...