Mcafee, Inc.

Arpit Pradhan

German Lancioni

Priyadarshini Rao Rajan

Cedric Cochin

Craig D Schmugar

Tamir Damian Munafo

Bidan Sinha

Arun Chundiriyil Pullat

Craig Schumgar

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for securing a mobile device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a housing dimensioned to receive the mobile device. A secure storage is carried by the housing. A malware scanner is carried by the housing, and is to perform a first scan of an external electronic device to detect malware. A driver loader is carried by the housing, and is to mount a secure file transfer driver in response to the first scan not identifying malware on the external electronic device. A file handler is carried by the housing, and is to detect, using the secure file transfer driver, a file to be transferred intermediate the external electronic device and the mobile device. The malware scanner is to scan the file. The file handler is to quarantine the file in response to the malware scanner detecting malware in the file.

Methods and apparatus for securing a mobile device

Assessing ransomware impact includes receiving an indication of a first plurality of files stored on a user device and a classification for each of the first plurality of files, determining a second plurality of files stored in a remote storage, wherein the second plurality of files corresponds to an indication of files stored on the user device at a first prior time, wherein each of the second plurality of files are associated with a second classification, determining a third plurality of files comprising files included in the first plurality of files and not included in the second plurality of files, and calculating a risk assessment based on classifications for each of the third plurality of files.

Method for ransomware impact assessment and remediation assisted by data compression

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