US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "Detecting malicious activity based on accesses to stable data storage objects" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,224, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Detecting malicious activity based on accesses to stable data storage objects" was invented by Matthew Long (Pocasset, Mass.), Dan Aharoni (Brookline, Mass.) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cyber-attacks on data maintained by a storage node are detected by monitoring for suspicious IOs to storage objects that contain only stable data. Data may be inherently stable or become stable based on elapsed time since the most recent update. Suspicious IOs to stable data storage objects include WR IOs that update stable data and, potential...