US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Validation traps to detect adversary attempts to secure access" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,313, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Validation traps to detect adversary attempts to secure access" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheba, Israel) and Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to reinstating access to a system of an admin whose certificate is invalid or expired and to detecting an attack on the system. A requestor, who may be an admin whose certificate is expired or invalid, may send a request for reinstatement to validators. The system may provide honeypot validators in addition to legitimate valid...