US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for analyzing partial attack paths" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,753, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for analyzing partial attack paths" was invented by Hendrikus G. P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Jeffrey M. Napper (Delft, Netherlands), Willem Jonker (Groningen, Netherlands) and Stefano Simonetto (Enschede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes ingesting security tool findings associated with an application and identifying events associated with the application. The method also includes comparing the security tool findings and the events against known attack paths and determining partial...