ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,222, issued on April 15, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Using snapshots for anomaly detection" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Michael Ferrari (Douglas, Mass.) and Benjamin Randolph (Uxbridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile of characteristics of a normal snapshot of a storage object is computed from previous snapshots of the storage object. Characteristics of a new snapshot are compared with the characteristics in the profile to identify an anomaly indicative of a malicious attack. The characteristics include percent data changed between consecutive snapshots, write LBA dispersion, wri...