Notification of an Unfavorable Access Pattern in a Storage Network

A processing system of a storage network comprises:

• at least one processor;
• a memory that stores operational instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing system to perform operations that include:
• receiving an access request from a requestor for a set of encoded data slices, wherein the set of encoded data slices is dispersed storage error encoded and stored in at least one storage unit of a storage network;
• detecting, based on the access request, an unfavorable access pattern associated with the requestor;
• denying the access request in response to detecting the unfavorable access pattern;
• generating, in response to detecting the unfavorable access pattern, an anomaly detection indicator identifying the requestor;
• and
• sending the anomaly detection indicator to other devices of the storage network.