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Ransomware Detection in the HPE Alletra B10000 – Successfully Recover

With the R5 release of the code for the HPE Alletra MP B10000, among many other nice improvements (for example NAS and a nice new CSI driver), everyone now gets heavy-duty ransomware detection.

We have invented some new and unique ways for detecting modern ransomware that encrypts data in advanced ways (for example intermittent encryption), but most importantly, ways to detect encryption that doesn’t even look like encryption (which defeats other detection methods that rely on fixed entropy detection thresholds). See explainer here for more details on why this is crucial.

The whole point of doing this is early detection.

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Are Snapshots backups? And what do you need to protect against?

I got the idea for this post from a Twitter thread. I thought such discussions were dead but clearly they’re not, and decided to shed some light on this, having dealt with backup at insane scale in a previous life.

It doesn’t matter what a feature is called – can you use it to recover? And, if the answer is yes, how quickly and under which scenarios? And what are the downsides?

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