US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 2 for "Tracking, evaluating, and improving responses to malicious threats in a network security system" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,774, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Tracking, evaluating, and improving responses to malicious threats in a network security system" was invented by Derek Edward Thomas (Minneapolis) and Kelsey Helms (Tacoma, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying threat events in an enterprise network and managing detection rules and responses to the events. A threat intelligence computer system can receive information about a detected threat event including a phase of attack and a detected domain of the threat event, apply at least one tag to the detected event tha...