US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for cohort denial of service attack detection and mitigation" (American, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,187, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for cohort denial of service attack detection and mitigation" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway), Brian St. Pierre (Acworth, N.H.) and Filippo Vitale (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network monitoring device is connected to a communications network and monitors traffic transmitted to and from a server. The system stores a device fingerprint of devices identified as involved in attacks across the communications network, generates attack patterns for attacks across the communications network based ...