US Patent Issued to AttackIQ on Sept. 16 for "Method for emulating an attack on an asset within a target network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,559, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AttackIQ Inc. (San Diego).

"Method for emulating an attack on an asset within a target network" was invented by George Tomic (San Diego), Andres Gazzoli (San Diego), Pablo Caballero (San Diego), Raul Lopez (San Diego), Franco Ardiani (San Diego), Juan Pablo Fuertes (San Diego) and Rajesh K. Sharma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: generating data packets by recombining packet fragments transmitted between machines during a prior malicious attack on a reference network; defining triggers for transmission of the data packets between pairs of assets co...