US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on May 6 for "Analysis of backup copies to identify malware-encrypted primary data" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,974, issued on May 6, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Analysis of backup copies to identify malware-encrypted primary data" was invented by Jitin Jindal (Tinton Falls, N.J.), Arun Prasad Amarendran (Manalapan, N.J.), Chandan Singh (Hyderabad, India), Gopikannan Venugopalsamy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yongtao Liu (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Backup data is leveraged to determine whether primary data has been encrypted by malware. The disclosed approach does not rely on recognizing particular malware instances or malware provenance, and thus can be applied to any body of data. Even a nov...