Submitted 8 months ago by umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/102067-ibm-ai-enhanced-storage-platform-can-identify-ransomware.html
Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file.
It’s just a data filter that’s build in to a hardware and possibly no way to trun off. Last thing I want is a black box watching what I stored on my drive.
buzzword, buzzword, buzzword
Marketing will love this
Color me skeptical on this one. Quarantining files isn’t a case where I want AI’s tendency to make shit up when confused.
IBM is coasting on name recognition.
IBM Watson AI
Warning, User. Ransomware has been detected!
Choose corrective action: Delete data or pay the scammer?
I only want open source file scanning, otherwise it is certainly also scanning for pirated files, illegal files, etc, and reporting them to the government without my consent.
I can identify a lot of things in a minute.
Doesn’t mean I’m not a bullshitter.
Yeah a bit. IBM QRadar is alright. I’m confident there’s something real (and real expensive) underneath the buzzword salad in that article.
Who apart from legacy banks buys IBM? LOL 🤣
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
False positives everywhere
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 8 months ago
Just to play devil’s advocate here: if that system can scan better than current systems, it’s already a win. If that system can scan more efficiently than current systems, even with false positives, that could be a win, if used as a screening layer.
There could be use cases for this, or it’s just buzzwords and marketing.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This doesn’t sound any different than what most host based AV already do. The novel idea is implementing it in on the storage array directly in a way that doesn’t hose performance. That means instead of needing 100% coverage of all clients to detect/ prevent ransomware encrypting your network storage, the storage array can detect it and presumably reject the sketchy client.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No change then. Every time I’ve uploaded new encrypted (most) data to one drive, it’s emailed me about potential ransomware.