US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on July 8 for "Use of multifactor authentication in assessing suspicious activity" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,526, issued on July 8, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Use of multifactor authentication in assessing suspicious activity" was invented by Marina Simakov (Ashdod, Israel) and Yaron Zinar (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security agent configured to initiate multifactor authentication (MFA) in response to security triggers occurring on a computing device. Upon occurrence of a security trigger, the security agent delays action associated with a process on the computing device and provides, to a display of a user of the computing device, a prompt asking if the security trigger resulted from an ...