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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
M Corneliu Constantinescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Leo Shyh-Wei Luan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ramanjaneya Sarma Burugula, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Sangeetha Seshadri, Plano, TX (US);
Shafiqul Abedin, San Jose, CA (US);
Wayne C. Hineman, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for identifying clean backups of a monitored computing system. A backup of a state of a computing system is generated. In response, these operations are performed: alert data associated with the monitored computing system is retrieved, where alert data is stored in response to patterns of data accesses indicating a possible cyber-attack on the computing system; a classification engine executes a classification operation on the alert data to determine if it indicates that the state of the monitored computing system was the target of a cyber-attack within a predetermined period of time prior to a time the backup was generated; if so, a first tag is generated for the backup indicating the backup to be corrupted; if not, a second tag for the backup is generated indicating the backup to be clean; and the first or second tag is stored in association with the backup.