US Patent Issued to Netskope on April 22 for "Systems and methods of detecting and responding to ransomware on a cloud-based file storage system by identifying a volume of changes in the files stored on the cloud-based file storage system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,206, issued on April 22, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of detecting and responding to ransomware on a cloud-based file storage system by identifying a volume of changes in the files stored on the cloud-based file storage system" was invented by Sean Hittel (Calgary, Canada), Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.), Ravindra K. Balupari (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravi Ithal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to detecting a ransomware attack on a cloud-based file storage system. The detecting includes collecting metadata on files at they are manipulat...