US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Leveraging network security scanning to obtain enhanced information regarding an attack chain involving a decoy file" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,527, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Leveraging network security scanning to obtain enhanced information regarding an attack chain involving a decoy file" was invented by Aldo Di Mattia (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying a source of an attack chain based on network security scanning events triggered by movement of a decoy file are provided. A decoy file is stored on a deception host deployed by a deception-based intrusion detection system (IDS) within a private network. The decoy file contains therein a traceable object that is detectable by network security...