US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on April 29 for "Recognizing and mitigating successful cyberattacks" (Czech, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,323, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Recognizing and mitigating successful cyberattacks" was invented by Viliam Holub (Prague), Trevor Parsons (Boston) and Eoin Shanley (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a cyberattack monitoring system are disclosed to identify successful attacks on a service based on benign activities of the attacker performed after the initial attack attempt. In embodiments, the system identifies the initial attack by matching client actions to known attack patterns. Clients observed with attempted attacks are remembered as suspected attackers. The system will then monit...