ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,899, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Application slicing for active defense" was invented by Merve Sahin (Antibes, France) and Cedric Hebert (Mouans Sartoux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application slicing can be applied to a web application with web application endpoints so that only the endpoints accessible by a given role are present in a given slice. Thus, role-based application slicing can be implemented. Subsequently, when requests for access to endpoints are received, the requests can be directed to a slice associated with a role of the user identifier making the request. Vulnerability c...