With recent advancements in data storage technologies, major companies use massive data centers to store various internal and customer information. Now, although companies implement several security encryptions to protect sensitive data, we have seen various tech giants such as Acer, Canon, and CD Projekt Red hit by ransomware attacks in the recent past. So, to prevent such cyber attacks on companies as well as general users, a team of researchers has now come up with a hardware-level security solution for SSDs that can block ransomware attacks before the attacking malware starts encrypting user data.
However, it is worth mentioning that although the system can be easily integrated into modern SSD drives, it does take a toll on the performance of the storage devices. As per researchers, with the SSD Insider++ solution, the latency performance of SSDs decreases by 17 percent, and the maximum throughput of the devices goes down by 8 percent.
