ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,294, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Monitoring process data acquisition and exfiltration" was invented by Daniel Montaque Teal (Austin, Texas), Steven Braggs (Oxford, Great Britain) and Andrew James Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes identifying one or more software processes that execute on the endpoint device and that perform at least one file operation including opening a file, reading the file, writing the file, or transmitting the file over a network. The method further includes storing for each software process of t...