ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,450, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Anomali Inc..
"Efficient management of complex attack surfaces" was invented by Wei Huang (Redwood City, Calif.), Mohsen Imani (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yizheng Zhou (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing an attack surface is provided. The method comprises obtaining network traffic logs for the domain, correlating the logs to threats, mapping a flow of network traffic between malicious indicators and host identifiers, determining an exposed set of host identifiers, determining host attributes and indicator attributes of hosts identified in the exposed set, p...