Patent ID: 11914724
Assignee: ACRONIS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for adjusting data protection levels based on system metadata, the method comprising:
monitoring a computing device for a cyberattack, wherein a kernel driver of the computing device is configured to allow access to kernel control paths and hash tables in accordance with a first protection level;
detecting that the cyberattack is in progress;
while the cyberattack is in progress,
identifying kernel control paths and hashes of software objects that will be affected by the cyberattack;
configuring the kernel driver to disable access to the identified kernel control paths and hashes of the software objects in accordance with a second protection level, wherein the second protection level comprises greater access restrictions to the computing device than the first protection level.