Lifecycle-Based Design and Evaluation of Real-Time Backup Triggers for Ransomware Damage Mitigation

Ransomware continues to encrypt files during the interval between attack onset and detection. Real-time backups can mitigate this damage by preserving files before they are modified. The previously proposed Real-Time Open-File Backup System ROFBS triggers backups primarily on file-open events...

ROFBS$Α$: Real Time Backup System Decoupled from ML Based Ransomware Detection

This study introduces ROFBS$α$, a new defense architecture that addresses delays in detection in ransomware detectors based on machine learning. It builds on our earlier Real Time Open File Backup System, ROFBS, by adopting an asynchronous design that separates backup operations from detection...