US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Sept. 9 for "Techniques for detecting cyberattacks on an authentication system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,606, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Techniques for detecting cyberattacks on an authentication system" was invented by Vasudha Shivamoggi (Arlington, Mass.), Roy Hodgman (Cambridge, Mass.) and Katherine Wilbur (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide techniques for detecting cyberattacks against a software service authentication system that authorizes access to software services. The techniques access a user activity profile specifying values of parameters indicating the user's pattern of requesting access to unique software service(s). The techniques monitor the activity o...