US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 3 for "Customizable threat rules in a computer network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,452, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Customizable threat rules in a computer network" was invented by George Tsironis (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a computer system. The method includes causing display of one or more graphical controls enabling a user to define attributes of a threat rule, the attributes including a type of computer network entity and an anomaly pattern associated with the type of computer network entity. The method further includes generating the threat rule based on interaction by a user with t...