Patent ID: 9244770
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for responding to a security threat for a maintenance free storage container, the method comprises: identifying a security threat for the maintenance free storage container, wherein the maintenance free storage container allows for multiple storage servers of a plurality of storage servers to be in a failure mode without replacement, wherein a set of the storage servers of the plurality of storage servers stores a set of encoded data slices, wherein a data segment of a data object is dispersed storage error encoded to produce the set of encoded data slices, wherein the data segment is recoverable from a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices, and wherein the security threat is regarding integrity of data stored within the maintenance free storage container; determining a failure mode level that is indicative of whether one or more of the multiple storage servers are in the failure mode; selecting a security threat countermeasure based on the security threat and the failure mode level; and implementing the security threat countermeasure.