US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Behavioral graph firewall policy" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,815, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Behavioral graph firewall policy" was invented by Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.) and Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems described herein relate to a security system for a network or other monitored system of computing devices, such as a firewall system. The techniques and systems provide for generation of behavioral graphs based on observed network and/or system traffic during an observation period and subsequent creation of a network security policy using the behavioral graph as the framework for the...