US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Simulating a ransomware attack in a testing environment" (Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,078, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Simulating a ransomware attack in a testing environment" was invented by Rustem Rafikov (Hopkinton, Mass.), Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Sathya Krishna Murthy (Morrisville, N.C.), Christopher Jones (Plainville, Mass.) and Bruce A. Zimmerman (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to simulating a ransomware attack in a testing environment. The technique involves obtaining access to a testing environment in which to perform a simulated ransomware attack. The technique further involves, after obtaining access to the testi...