US Patent Issued to SentinelOne on Sept. 16 for "Deceiving attackers accessing network data" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,565, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SentinelOne Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Deceiving attackers accessing network 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 responses from a directory service to a source on the endpoint. The sensor module determines if the source is sanctioned, such as by referencing a sanctioned list of applications. If the source is not sanctioned, then a simulated response can be provided to the source that reference...