US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Fuzzing based security assessment" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,437, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fuzzing based security assessment" was invented by Sandhya Koteshwara (White Plains, N.Y.), Jose Gabriel Castanos (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) and Paul Gregory Crumley (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for assessing endpoint security includes identifying a size of exposed PCIe space corresponding to a system of interest comprising one or more endpoints, determining an observable state of correct functionality for the system, generating random transacti...