SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Michael Dexter
CTO
Gainframe
Michael is a member of the SNIA Data Protection and Privacy Committee who provides independent OpenZFS-related storage support to clients of all sizes around the world.
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Hardening OpenZFS to Further Mitigate Ransomware
While the Open Source cross-platform OpenZFS file system and volume manager provides advanced block-level features including checksumming, snapshotting, and replication to mitigate ransomware at the POSIX level, the evolving nature of ransomware dictates that no technology should rest on its laurels. This developer and administrator-focused talk will explore strategies for hardening OpenZFS and its supported operating systems towards a goal of total storage immutability without authorization. Achieving this goal will require operating system-level mitigations with a focus on multi-factor authentication (MFA) and authorization.