US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Security policy adjustment based on anomaly detection" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,576, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Security policy adjustment based on anomaly detection" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Bhavik Pradeep Shah (Bangalore, India), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), Nancy Patricia Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.) and Edward Albert Warnicke (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for escalating a security policy based on anomalous behavior. An example method includes identifying first behaviors associated with a first user and identifying a cluster comprising the first behaviors and seco...