US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on Oct. 7 for "Detecting and mitigating forged authentication object attacks in multi-cloud environments with attestation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,851, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Detecting and mitigating forged authentication object attacks in multi-cloud environments with attestation" 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 for detecting and mitigating forged authentication object attacks in federated environments using attestation is provided, comprising an event inspector to monitor logs and detect vulnerable events, an authentication object inspector configured to observe a new authentication object generated by an identity provider, and intercept the new authen...