US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance on Nov. 25 for "System and method of identifying malicious activity in a network" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,574, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (Springfield, Mass.).

"System and method of identifying malicious activity in a network" was invented by Sara Saperstein (Springfield, Mass.), John H. Ring IV (Springfield, Mass.), Kevin Sopuch (Springfield, Mass.), James Hefferman (Springfield, Mass.), Lindsey Basara (Springfield, Mass.) and Evan Moore (Springfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for identifying malicious network activity. In an embodiment, a method comprises monitoring, by a computer, network activity of a user having a baseline network act...