US Patent Issued to SOPHOS on Jan. 13 for "Threat management using network traffic to determine security states" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,295, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SOPHOS Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Threat management using network traffic to determine security states" was invented by Craig Robert Jones (Wales, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects related to methods, systems, and computer readable media for using network traffic to determine security states on an enterprise network. Network traffic may be monitored and scrutinized to identify potential security threats. The potential security threats may be ranked and presented to a network administrator for further examination of each endpoint, or, automatic remedial actions m...