US Patent Issued to Penten on July 22 for "Methods and systems for honeyfile creation, deployment, and management" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,755, issued on July 22, was assigned to Penten Pty Ltd (Braddon, Australia).

"Methods and systems for honeyfile creation, deployment, and management" was invented by Ben Whitham (Campbell, Australia), David Liebowitz (Bruce, Australia), Kiriya Keat (Narrabundah, Australia) and Connor Brendish (Nicholls, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically manipulating a lifecycle of a honeyfile on a file system, includes: implementing a learning algorithm on a file system; identifying a real file; training the learning algorithm by observing temporal events involving the real file; training a model with the learning alg...