Patent ID: 11930042
Assignee: NASUNI CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A method of detecting and recovering from a ransomware attack in association with a cloud-based global file system wherein a filer is associated with a volume of a versioned file system in a private, public or hybrid cloud object store, comprising:
responsive to detecting a ransomware attack, restricting access to the volume;
activating or designating a recovery filer;
initiating a restore operation at the recovery filer;
upon completion of the restore operation, creating a new clean snapshot of the volume using the recovery filer; and
thereafter, re-enabling access to the volume;
wherein recovery from the ransomware attack occurs over a time period measured in minutes with respect to a point-in-time when the ransomware attack is detected.