US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 27 for "Threat analytics and dynamic compliance in security policies" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,676, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Threat analytics and dynamic compliance in security policies" was invented by Doron Levari (Newton, Mass.), Tariq Ahmed Farhan (Cambridge, Mass.), Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.), Ido Tamir (Boston), Adam Bragg (Hollis, N.H.) and Jason M Perry (Plymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for defining dynamic security compliance in networks to proactively prevent security policy violations from being added and/or made, retroactively and continuously identify security policy violations based on...