ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,816, issued on July 8, was assigned to ExtraHop Networks Inc. (Seattle).
"Automated preemptive polymorphic deception" was invented by Xue Jun Wu (Seattle), Bhushan Prasad Khanal (Seattle), Swagat Dasgupta (Kirkland, Wash.), Changhwan Oh (Seattle) and J. Braund (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Anomalous events may be classified based on the monitored network traffic and attack models such that the classification determines that targets of the anomalous events may be currently subject to attacks by entities communicating on the netwo...