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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Wai Chuen Yim, Merrimack, NH (US);
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An information handling system (IHS) smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) or storage device having a ransomware protection (engine) that paves an IHS by creating a secure snapshot of a boot device of the IHS, creating a read and writable snapshot from the secure snapshot, and exposing the read and writable snapshot of the secure snapshot to the IHS, through a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) or basic input/output system (BIOS) of the IHS, as a primary boot device. The ransomware protection (engine) may also repave the IHS by recreating the boot read and writable snapshot upon a reboot of the IHS, in response to receipt of a repave command (through a management interface of the SmartNIC), restoring the primary boot device to a known good state captured by the secure snapshot.