Object Lock

Definitions

1. A storage control that prevents an object from being modified or deleted for a defined retention period, often used in cloud object stores. Object lock is valuable for ransomware resilience, legal hold, and tamper-resistant backup strategies because even privileged users may be restricted from immediate deletion.

   In plain English: A storage feature that makes files or objects temporarily undeletable and unchangeable.

   Example: "The backup team enabled object lock so attackers with compromised admin credentials could not simply purge recovery data."

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