ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,546, issued on July 1, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Name translation monitoring" was invented by Oded Comay (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oren Nechushtan (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for analyzing traffic are described. In certain aspects, network traffic is analyzed and a domain name system (DNS) message is extracted from the network traffic. Subsequent network traffic is monitored and analyzed based on the DNS message and in view of one or more criteria. In response to the one or more criteria being satisfied, an indication of compromise (Io...