SSDs with Built-In Protection Against Ransomware
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SSDs with Built-In Protection Against Ransomware
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Re: SSDs with Built-In Protection Against Ransomware
#2This has to be a scam. I don't see any way it could possibly work. If a user can overwrite a file then an attacker can to, and there is no way that a hard drive could possibly tell the difference between the two, except perhaps through some heuristics which would be easily defeated.
Re: SSDs with Built-In Protection Against Ransomware
#3This has to be a scam. I don't see any way it could possibly work. If a user can overwrite a file then an attacker can to, and there is no way that a hard drive could possibly tell the difference between the two, except perhaps through some heuristics which would be easily defeated.
They have a Windows app to go with it, which mentions “simple authentication” and “machine learning ransomware detection”
So all the real work is done by regular windows software, and I bet it could be adapted to work with any type of SSD too. The fancy disk drive acts as a “dongle” to enable the software.
(To be fair, there are mentions of things that drive firmware actually does - it can lock out some of the disk partitions, for example, which could be useful to thwart certain kinds of kernel attacks. But it is not clear how this is different from regular SED functionality, and most ransomwares don’t attack kernel anyway)