ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,227, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Encryption detection" was invented by Brett Quinn (Cotuit, Mass.), Doug Lecrone (Hopkinton, Mass.), Paul Linstead (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Denis Burt (Plymouth, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to protecting the integrity of datasets stored by a storage array. In embodiments, one or more IO write requests from an input/output (IO) workload are intercepted. Additionally, a likely cyber-attack event is identified based on a bit density of write data corresponding to the one or more IO requests. Furthe...