DISTRIBUTED and AUTONOMOUS DATA SECURITY AGENT

A computer server secured data storage system having a distributed and autonomous data security agent, the system comprising:

• a computer server (80) in data communications with a data storage array consisting of a plurality of data storage devices (40);
• the computer server (80) having a dedicated Network Private (25) link in communication with a Chip Administrator (60), a Data Link (70) between a Chip-A (30) and a Chip-B (50) of said distributed and autonomous data security agent,
• the Chip-A (30) resident and operable in the computer server (80) and being a firmware device running a Firmware-1 (110) methodology, the methodology managing/controlling/processing Write/Read calls and data transfers between the computer server (80) and the Chip-Bs (50) of the data storage array;
• the data storage devices (40) of the data storage array each having a Chip-B (50) of the distributed and autonomous data security agent resident and operable in the computer server (80) and being a firmware device running a Firmware-2 (120) methodology and managing/controlling/processing data transfer between the Chip-A (30) of the computer server (80) and the storage devices (40) of the data storage array;
• the Chip Administrator (60) device consists of a motherboard (140), a CPU (90), a RAM (100), and a Firmware-3 (130) to control an operational mode of the data security agent, to provide administrative access to Chip-A (30) to configure the data security agent;
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• the Chip Administrator (60), Chip-A (30) and Chip-B (50) in combination with their associated Firmwares-1, -2, & -3 providing said distributed and autonomous data security agent of said computer server secured data storage system.