A security company is claiming to have developed a flash drive with built-in ransomware prevention support that can protect any data stored on it against being stolen or encrypted by malware.has an on-board processor that uses machine learning algorithms to constantly monitor disk accesses and will step in to block access if it detects ransomware activity, we're told.
Cigent already offers a Secure SSD line that safeguards data through full-disk encryption and support for multi-factor authentication, plus the company sells aWe asked Professor Bernard van Gastel of the institute for computing and information sciences in Nijmegen in the Netherlands how plausible he thought it would be to set something like this up.
He said the company itself indicates this"in point 3 under 'A Few Important Notes' of their data sheet. So it is not full protection, because there might be false negatives and can kick in too late so some damage is already done. And it can cost you availability of your systems because of false positives."
It can also be used to manage Data Defense software across the rest of the organization’s PCs and trigger “Shields Up” status to protect them from ransomware, even if they don't have a Secure SSD+ drive.