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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2022
Dell Products, L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Wai Chuen Yim, Merrimack, NH (US);
Walter O'Brien, Iii, Westboro, MA (US);
Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A ransomware protection smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) is configured to create a secure snapshot of a boot device of an information handling system (IHS), create a secure alternate boot device on each boot of the IHS, and export the boot device and the secure alternate boot device to the IHS. The IHS is configured to set a boot order of the IHS, with the secure alternate boot device immediately after the boot device in the boot order. The ransomware protection SmartNIC may also be configured to create a read and writeable snapshot from the secure snapshot of the IHS boot device, and may delete, on each subsequent boot of the IHS, the read and writeable snapshot for the prior boot, and create a new read and writeable snapshot from a secure snapshot of the IHS boot device from the subsequent boot of the IHS.