| CPC G06F 21/568 (2013.01) [G06F 2221/033 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a first or second storage system, a set of changes to an asynchronously replicated storage object, the changes comprising data updates;
generating an unvalidated snapshot that contains the set of changes; and
prompting performance of validation on the unvalidated snapshot to detect one or more of data corruption and malicious data encryption.
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