US Patent Issued to Sentinel Forge Technologies on June 10 for "Method for improving IT security in a network" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,340, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sentinel Forge Technologies LLC (Towson, Md.).

"Method for improving IT security in a network" was invented by Colin Hamill (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for protecting computer resources from malicious attack including baseline sentinels and warrior sentinels. Baseline sentinels are deployed on a network serving only as decoys and containing no company data. When any attempt to communicate with a baseline sentinel is detected, a host of warrior sentinels (also containing no company data) are deployed to act as additional decoys, diminishing the chance that a ...