US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Dynamic prioritization of attack paths in cloud native application" (Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,801, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic prioritization of attack paths in cloud native application" was invented by Arash Salarian (Vaud, Switzerland), Marcelo Yannuzzi (Canton de Fribourg, Switzerland), Hendrikus G.P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands) and Jeffrey Michael Napper (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using real-time metrics and telemetry information to dynamically prioritize attack paths identified during a static analysis of a cloud native application, and using top priority attack paths identified during the static analysis to steer the dynamic...