US Patent Issued to SPLUNK on Sept. 16 for "Automated attack chain following by a threat analysis platform" (Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,286, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated attack chain following by a threat analysis platform" was invented by Bryan Burns (Portland, Ore.), Michael Horn (San Carlos, Calif.), Steven Thomas Jackson (Anchorage, Alaska), William Metcalf (Concordia, Kan.), Jason Williams (Firestone, Colo.) and Gregory Lee Wittel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a threat analysis platform capable of automating actions performed to analyze security-related threats affecting IT environments. Users or applications can submit objects (e.g., URLs, files, etc.)...