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Moving target defenses for data storage devices

  • US 10,558,802 B2
  • Filed: 06/26/2019
  • Issued: 02/11/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A moving target defense method for securing at least one data storage device, comprising:

  • changing, within a storage appliance, a device type of the at least one data storage device from “

    disk”

    to “

    unknown;



    obfuscating a command set for the at least one data storage device inside the storage appliance;

    after a command is sent to the at least one data storage device from a host computer via the storage appliance, re-obfuscating the command set and reconfiguring a communications channel between the storage appliance and the at least one data storage device; and

    statically linking an interface library on the host computer to an authorized application on the host computer, wherein the storage appliance allows the authorized application to access the at least one data storage device and blocks any other applications on the host computer from accessing the at least one data storage device.

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