ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,177, issued on April 22, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).
"Event-triggered reauthentication of at-risk and compromised systems and accounts" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method that detects and mitigates zero-day exploits and other vulnerabilities by analyzing event logs and external databases, forcing reauthentication of at-risk and comprised systems and accounts during an identified threat or potential security risk."
The patent was filed on Dec. 31, 2021, under Application No. 17/567,069.
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