FilingBox Storage Protection Technology with Ransomware In-Advance Prevention Storage

Today more ransomware is targeting SMBs and hospitals without having enough resources and IT manpower.

Backup is the only solution, but even that is not well-kept. It’s not easy to periodically back up, disconnect the network or remove the USB drive every time. People just want to save their data in storage and make it secure while they use it. But existing storage doesn’t have any protection mechanism inside, so all data is locked if ransomware runs on their PC.

One of the network storage companies, FilingCloud (Namusoft Co., Ltd.) solved this problem by adding an application detection module inside network storage.

This special network storage, named FilingBox, provides a network drive to PCs, but it has an application detection module inside and decides whether to provide a file with read-only or read-write.

After examining the application requesting data, it provides a file with read-only to the PC If it is not a preregistered application. In case, data can not be modified or encrypted on the PC because it works like data being on the CD-ROM. On the other hand, It provides a file with RW to the PC If preregistered application requests data. It does not ask to change existing applications at all because this storage is recognized as a network drive.

John Woo, head, research center, said: “The idea of adding the application detection module inside the network storage has made ransomware fundamentally preventable. We hope that it will be of great help in preventing ransomware in small and medium-sized businesses and hospitals.”

Recognized for user convenience and data safety, this technology is registered as patent technology in over 5 countries including the U.S. and the EU, and is used for over 200 companies already including California.

About FilingBox
It was a software company that supplied network-drive-based EDMS (electronic document management systems) in Korea. While developing an EDMS, one day a developer developed a read-only file system that provided files with read-only after being saved by mistake, the firm noticed the value of using it, and upgraded it to a ransomware prevention file system, and named it ‘storage protection technology’. By keeping upgrading it, now the company provide a storage protection technology that prevents ransomware and also data-breach malware attacks.The firm have over 200 customer companies using it, and patents for storage protection technology, which have been registered in 5 countries including the US and Europe, and lead the international Storage Protection standard as x.spmoh in ITU-T, which develops global cyber security standards under the UN.