ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,777, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Centralized event detection" was invented by Joseph H. Levy (Farmington, Utah), Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Daniel Salvatore Schiappa (Bedford, N.H.) and Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threat management facility stores a number of entity models that characterize reportable events from one or more entities. A stream of events from compute instances within an enterprise network can then be analyzed using these entity models to detect behavior that is inconsistent or anomalous for one or more of the entities that ...