ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,622, issued on May 27, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).
"Protection of public-facing computing assets of an organization" was invented by Russell Meyers (Austin, Texas), Michael Habibi (Austin, Texas), Chin-En Yang (Austin, Texas) and Juifang Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for protecting public-facing computing assets of an organization includes a correlation system and security appliances. Public-facing computing assets of the organization are discovered as being accessible from the Internet. The security appliances monitor network traffic between monitored computing assets of the organization ...