ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,307, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Advanced detection of identity-based attacks to assure identity fidelity in information technology environments" 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 method for the detection and mitigation of Kerberos golden ticket, silver ticket, and related identity-based cyberattacks by passively monitoring and analyzing Kerberos and authentication operations within the network. The system and method provide real-time detections of identity attacks using time-series data and data pipelines, and...