US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Sept. 23 for "Generating simulated spear phishing messages and customized cybersecurity training modules using machine learning" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,421, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Generating simulated spear phishing messages and customized cybersecurity training modules using machine learning" was invented by Nicholas Patrick McClay (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to spear phishing simulation using machine learning. A computing platform may send, to an enterprise user device, a spear phishing message. The computing platform may receive initial user interaction information indicating how a user of the enterprise user device interacted with the spear phishing message. Based on the initial u...