US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 11 for "Snapshot deletion pattern-based determination of ransomware attack against data maintained by a storage system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,566, issued on March 11, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Snapshot deletion pattern-based determination of ransomware attack against data maintained by a storage system" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary method includes a data protection system detecting one or more delete requests to delete one or more recovery datasets of a storage system, determining that the one or more delete requests are inconsistent with a recovery dataset deletion pattern associated with the storage system, and determining, based on the determining that the one or more delete r...