Ransomware Detection Using Storage-Embedded AI

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either.
Ransomware is wreaking havoc on our society, and costing billions of dollars. This presentation will describe a novel approach for fighting against a problem that is growing ever worse as the demand for reliable data storage grows. The technique captures statistics about incoming data, and feeds this data into an AI-trained model in real time. A key aspect of its success is that it operates as part of the firmware that manages the flash memory-based storage system itself.
This talk will describe how this approach to this sticky problem has been successfully deployed in large production systems. Included will be a discussion of how the results coming back are also able to improve the model over time, how this allows for detecting corruption very early, and so is able to significantly reduce the time to recover.
Speaker(s): Andrew Walls,
673 South Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, California, United States, 95035, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/441677