US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for generation and implementation of cyber deception strategies" (Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,417, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for generation and implementation of cyber deception strategies" was invented by Ray-Yuan Sheu (Bel Air, Md.), Shawn Paul Johnson (Columbia, Md.), Cory Hall (Severn, Md.), Ronald Wayne Alford (Vienna, Va.) and James Raymond Morris-King (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for generating a cyber-deception strategy that adaptively implement a decoy file placement strategy for thwarting malicious activity on a computing network. The systems and methods can include a plurality of surveillance serv...