ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,884, issued on March 25, was assigned to SentinelOne Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Deceiving attackers accessing active directory data" was invented by Venu Vissamsetty (San Jose, Calif.), Anil Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Harinath Vishwanath Ramchetty (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endpoints in a network execute a sensor module that intercepts commands. The sensor module compares a source of commands to a sanctioned list of applications received from a management server. If the source does not match a sanctioned application and the command is a write or delete command, the command is ignored and a simulated ackno...