US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Oct. 7 for "Techniques for identifying network attack paths" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,901, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Techniques for identifying network attack paths" was invented by Austin Lee (Pasadena, Calif.), Val Komarov (Fairfax, Va.) and Miguel Ledezma (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to identifying network attack paths. An example method includes using at least one computer hardware processor to perform obtaining metadata indicating a set of network resources in a plurality of network resources and network connections among network resources in the set of network resources, generating, using the metadata, a relational representa...