US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 23 for "Adversarial training for malicious protocol data unit detection with field value perturbations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,433, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adversarial training for malicious protocol data unit detection with field value perturbations" was invented by Ajaya Neupane (San Jose, Calif.), Yu Fu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Lei Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Fikirte Ayalke Demmese (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular adversarial training data generator ("generator") generates adversarial training data for a machine learning (ML) model to detect malicious protocol data units (PDUs). The adversarial training data mimics high volume cyberattacks by pe...