US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 30 for "Compound threat detection for a computing system" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,178, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compound threat detection for a computing system" was invented by Anca Sailer (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Yuji Watanabe (Chuouku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topology graph for a computing system can be collected. An environment and application policy posture for at least one regulation relevant to the computing system can be collected. A plurality of penetration tests can be generated, the plurality of penetration tests determined based on the at least one topology graph for the computing system and the environment and application pol...