US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 2 for "Protecting data against malware attacks using cyber vault and automated airgap control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,058, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Protecting data against malware attacks using cyber vault and automated airgap control" was invented by Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.), Salil Dangi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Bhimsen Bhanjois (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving data recovery and restoration times by clamping down security after malware detection, and protect a data center from a cyber recovery vault. Embodiments provide a cyber recovery vault configured to store data backed up for a production site for long-term retention and disaster recovery. The vault is coupled ...