US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Nov. 4 for "System and method for evaluating active backups using penetration testing" (Singaporean, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,039, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for evaluating active backups using penetration testing" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Philipp Gysel (Bern, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for verifying a production system automatically by testing a mirror copy of the production system on a testing computer. The system includes a mirror update transporter to deliver a mirror update from the production system to the mirror system, a mounting module to apply ...