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IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file.

It's just a data filter that's build in to a hardware and possibly no way to trun off. Last thing I want is a black box watching what I stored on my drive.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

False positives everywhere

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to play devil's advocate here: if that system can scan better than current systems, it's already a win. If that system can scan more efficiently than current systems, even with false positives, that could be a win, if used as a screening layer.

There could be use cases for this, or it's just buzzwords and marketing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This doesn't sound any different than what most host based AV already do. The novel idea is implementing it in on the storage array directly in a way that doesn't hose performance. That means instead of needing 100% coverage of all clients to detect/ prevent ransomware encrypting your network storage, the storage array can detect it and presumably reject the compromised client.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

No change then. Every time I've uploaded new encrypted (most) data to one drive, it's emailed me about potential ransomware.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

buzzword, buzzword, buzzword

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Marketing will love this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Color me skeptical on this one. Quarantining files isn't a case where I want AI's tendency to make shit up when confused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

IBM is coasting on name recognition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I can identify a lot of things in a minute.

Doesn’t mean I’m not a bullshitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I only want open source file scanning, otherwise it is certainly also scanning for pirated files, illegal files, etc, and reporting them to the government without my consent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah a bit. IBM QRadar is alright. I’m confident there’s something real (and real expensive) underneath the buzzword salad in that article.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

IBM Watson AI

Warning, User. Ransomware has been detected!

Choose corrective action: Delete data or pay the scammer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Delete, pay scammer, or pay us. We offer you 10% off what the scammer is charging if you sign up for our monthly anti scammer subscription.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Who apart from legacy banks buys IBM? LOL 🤣