ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,233, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Command line obfuscation detection techniques" was invented by Michael Adam Polak (Prague), Martin Kopp (Komarov, Czech Republic) and Vojtech Outrata (Knezmost, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can perform obfuscation detection on command lines used at computing devices in a network. In response to detecting obfuscation in a command line, the disclosed techniques can output a notification for use in connection with network security analysis. The command line obfuscation detection techniques include pre-processin...