US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 20 for "Accuracy in attack technique labeling in an extended detection system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,882, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Accuracy in attack technique labeling in an extended detection system" was invented by Matthew Scott Robertson (Morpeth, Canada), Sunil Navinchandra Amin (Atlanta) and Michael Joseph McPhee (Victor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing a confidence rating for an attack technique tag and a guidance for improving the confidence rating are described. An attack technique analytics engine receives telemetry data, a notification that an attack has been detected using an attack detection source, the notification including an attack tec...