US Patent Issued to Imperva on April 29 for "Attack categorization based on machine learning feature contribution" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,292, issued on April 29, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Attack categorization based on machine learning feature contribution" was invented by Ori Nakar (Givat Shemuel, Israel), Nadav Avital (Pardes Hana, Israel) and Aiah Lerner (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes receiving an electronic communication directed to a data resource, determining, by a machine learning (ML) web application firewall (WAF), an attack probability of the electronic communication based on a plurality of features, wherein subsets of the plurality of features are a...