News SSD Uses AI to Secure Your Data From Ransomware Attacks

[Admin]

Cigent Technology, Inc. has announced the Cigent Secure SSD+ with ransomware prevention capabilities.

SSD Uses AI to Secure Your Data From Ransomware Attacks : Read more

 

[bit_user]

I'm reminded that Intel bought McAfee back in 2011, saying the same sorts of things about putting anti-virus into the hardware. The problem with that is false-positives. When it happens at a software level, you can just get an annoying pop-up or whatever. But, if your hardware decides something is a virus and just decides to abort, then it looks & acts pretty much like a random failure.

Speaking of this product, there are a couple ideas I like. For instance, being able to prevent log file erasure, at the hardware level, sounds interesting. Tricky to implement, but maybe if you put them in a separate volume with a special flag set in the partition table, the drive could key off of that to know they're logfiles.

 

[citral23]

What this industry has come to invent to try to make up for Microsoft's abysmal security practices never ceases to amaze me

 

[USAFRet]

What this industry has come to invent to try to make up for Microsoft's abysmal security practices never ceases to amaze me

Ransomware is almost entirely the result of clueless user action.
And not trivially fixed due to actions (inactions) by clueless system administrators.

 

[hotaru251]

make up for Microsoft's abysmal security practices

defend is basically good as many 3rd party anti virus now-a-days.
and randomsware and like are always advancing so gl trying to entirely shut them out.
Also practice proper backup & msot home users have no need worry about ransomware.

 

[cryoburner]

I'm reminded that Intel bought McAfee back in 2011, saying the same sorts of things about putting anti-virus into the hardware. The problem with that is false-positives. When it happens at a software level, you can just get an annoying pop-up or whatever. But, if your hardware decides something is a virus and just decides to abort, then it looks & acts pretty much like a random failure.

In this case though, it sounds like the monitoring software will pop up a message when the hardware blocks access, and allow the user to override it. There's not really any reason Intel couldn't do something similar. Of course, false positives could disrupt business, particularly if they require someone to look into what's happening and perform multi-factor authentication once they've determined that it's not a threat.

What this industry has come to invent to try to make up for Microsoft's abysmal security practices never ceases to amaze me

Except there's been Linux ransomware too.

 

[hotaru.hino]

What this industry has come to invent to try to make up for Microsoft's abysmal security practices never ceases to amaze me

What "abysmal" security practices?

 

[bit_user]

In this case though, it sounds like the monitoring software will pop up a message when the hardware blocks access, and allow the user to override it. There's not really any reason Intel couldn't do something similar.

Not really for server apps, where increased security would have the greatest business value.

And let's look at what actually happened. Intel sold off McAfee, without ever fulfilling its promise to integrate their technology into its hardware. So, it was all for naught.