{"id":238167,"date":"2026-06-02T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-retention-aware-system-turns-a-computers-storage-chip-into-a-cybersecurity-shield"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:22:41","slug":"a-retention-aware-system-turns-a-computers-storage-chip-into-a-cybersecurity-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-retention-aware-system-turns-a-computers-storage-chip-into-a-cybersecurity-shield","title":{"rendered":"A retention-aware system turns a computer\u2019s storage chip into a cybersecurity shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-retention-aware-system-turns-a-computers-storage-chip-into-a-cybersecurity-shield.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are ruthless. They can take control of your computer, delete files and disappear without a trace. However, FIU cybersecurity researcher Weidong Zhu has discovered a way to transform a computer\u2019s storage chip into an additional tool for cyber defense. Working with collaborators at the University of Florida, Zhu created a system that makes data on these chips last longer\u2014extending the lifespan of your files in the critical window after your computer is compromised. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3719027.3765135\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur system extends recoverable data history up to 126 days,\u201d said Zhu, an assistant professor at FIU\u2019s Knight Foundation School of Computing &amp; Information Sciences whose work is part of the Center for Integrated Security, Privacy, and Trustworthy AI (CIERTA). \u201cEven if your computer is infected, your data can survive on your drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Storage chips, known as solid-state drives (SSDs), have intrigued cybersecurity researchers for years. As hardware\u2014not software\u2014they offer unique safety benefits during an attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are ruthless. They can take control of your computer, delete files and disappear without a trace. However, FIU cybersecurity researcher Weidong Zhu has discovered a way to transform a computer\u2019s storage chip into an additional tool for cyber defense. Working with collaborators at the University of Florida, Zhu created a system that makes data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}