Patent 11663336 was granted and assigned to Dell on May, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A technique of protecting data from ransomware attacks identifies a set of blocks written to a data object between first and second points in time, determines a set of attributes of the set of blocks, and, in response to the set of attributes indicating a likelihood of a ransomware attack, secures a state of the data object as of the first point in time.