US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Limiting the ability of ransomware to spread within a data center" (Irish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,714, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Limiting the ability of ransomware to spread within a data center" was invented by Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India), Jason Neenan (Whitechurch, Ireland) and Owen Crowley (Carrigaline, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data center, a storage array detects a ransomware attack based on suspicious data or IO activity associated with a storage object. The storage array identifies all host servers authorized to access the storage object and generates notifications that prompt the identified host servers, or possibly all connected host servers, to shut ...