ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,585, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for simulation of cyberattacks with execution confirmation" was invented by Dmitrii Zotikov (Tokyo) and Sota Aoki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For more efficient confirmation of a successful cyberattack simulation, as a plurality of security tests are executed as a series on a testing processor, a search processor searches an activity log of a device targeted by the security tests for indicators of each test. The searches may execute in parallel with the tests on their respective processors. A test result for a test thereby reflects bot...