"Cigent and Phison make self-defending SSDs available to broader audiences... Phison and Cigent introduced a co-developed SSD platform that protects against ransomware and data theft with mechanisms built directly into the SSD's firmware. The drives even automatically encrypt and hide data from prying eyes in the event of an attack. These 'self-defending' drives will be available to everyone this year... When a threat is detected, these drives automatically encrypt and hide sensitive files completely from the OS layer in 'safe rooms'... To protect data against physical theft, Cigent's drives also come equipped with attack detectors and sensors..." https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/phison-cigent-develop-self-protecting-ssds
Not for home users it seems. And still nothing beats manually backing up once a week or two to an HDD that you can then disconnect and leave it there. More info about the AI https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/flexxon-ai-ssd-security-platform That's different company btw
No info on read/write speeds, and I would be curious with all those layers and partitions at durability viz the cost, which sure ain't cheap. 300USD for the 480 GB capacity, wow. (Cigent/Phison) But the technology is intriguing, at least in theory.
I wouldn't trust it unless it's a kernel driver like pumpernickel, but even then they can try to disable the driver or stop the service associated with it
It said last line of defence, aka nothing on top that Appguard or Voodooshield or the likes wouldn't stop.
I wouldn't think the read/write speeds would be greatly affected. I like that SSDs have reached the point where $300 for 480 GB seems like a lot. I remember paying $200 for a 120 GB drive a few years ago.
Lol I'm eager to see that happening on my machines. Far far far very distant in my view for such attack to happen, on my machines/scenarios.
I mean technically you can scan what is stopping the write executions, find the driver that is doing it, then report back to command center. Then command center does some research, finds how to stop pumpernickel with sc, and sends the commands to the bot. Ez.
It does indeed seems to be a software solution, the only difference is that it can quickly move files to a secured area, but if you have already blocked the attack, why bother?
Ye true. Not to mention, it can be a false sense of security. You are like "oh I have this ssd that protects my data IM IMMORTALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL" and then download crap just cuz u think u're invincible.
Yeah there's likely no software OR hardware that if reverse engineered by experts which can prove immune to computer module/software novel data code microscopically drawed up merely due to it's current programming formula detail we all take for granted. Not just us alone but the tech industry every bit as much. Hence patched updates/upgrades constantly running to meet the newest defection from adequate functionings. And of course security protections.
