US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Optimizing application security based on malicious user intent" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,288, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimizing application security based on malicious user intent" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David J. Zacks (Vancouver, Canada) and Walter T. Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method identifying a request to access or modify a data resource. The request is made by a user. The example method further includes authenticating the user. Based on authenticating the user, the example method includes determining that the request is associated with a malicious intent based on a characteristic of the use...