US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on Dec. 16 for "Kerberos interdiction and decryption for real-time analysis" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,767, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Kerberos interdiction and decryption for real-time analysis" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for Kerberos protocol collection, interdiction and decryption for real-time analysis to aid in both operational and security functions in SSO-enabled networks, using agent processes that intercept and decrypt Kerberos traffic to identify compromised credentials and accounts in real-time without exposing sensitive information."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2023, under Appli...