Ransomware has had a major impact on how IT organizations think about protecting data. Now Druva, a provider of data protection and management software delivered as a service, wants to make it a lot simpler for IT organizations to identify data that is being targeted by ransomware before things completely spin out of their control. Today, Druva announced it is employing machine learning algorithms across its cloud service to continually assess the unique attributes of changes being made across various file types to make it easier to identify abnormal deletions, unusual modifications and updates, and an atypical number or large number of file creations. Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh says all these events are symptomatic of events associated with ransomware attacks. In the event of such an attack, Singh says, Druva can now also pinpoint the last safest snapshot for an organization to recover. Machine learning algorithms, Singh says, are only part of an overall approach to data protection that is rapidly evolving.