ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,593, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Armis Security Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Malicious lateral movement detection using remote system protocols" was invented by Evgeny Luk-Zilberman (Herzliya, Israel), Gil Ben Zvi (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ron Shoham (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yuval Friedlander (Petah-Tiqwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for malicious lateral movement detection. A method includes identifying atomic tunnels in packets sent between devices; identifying tunnel constructs; determining a potentially malicious atomic tunnel among the atomic tunnels by comparing edges of each of the atomic tu...