US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 12 for "Using backup meta-data and analytics for detecting cyber-attacks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,953, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Using backup meta-data and analytics for detecting cyber-attacks" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to generating backups of assets. More specifically, in one or more embodiments of the invention, the meta-data generated during the backups is leveraged for detecting cyber-attacks by leveraging backup meta-data, to reduce the amount of data that needs to be scanned by a cyber-security module to detect a cyber-attack, such as a ransomware atta...