US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 25 for "Web analyzer engine for identifying security-related threats" (Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,588, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Web analyzer engine for identifying security-related threats" was invented by Bryan Burns (Portland, Ore.), Michael Horn (San Carlos, Calif.), Steven Thomas Jackson (Anchorage, Alaska), William Metcalf (Concordia, Kan.), Jason Williams (Firestone, Colo.) and Gregory Lee Wittel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a threat analysis platform capable of automating actions performed to analyze security-related threats affecting IT environments. Users or applications can submit objects (e.g., URLs, fil...