ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,882, issued on April 29, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).
"Framework for automated penetration testing" was invented by Rohini Sulatycki (Lake Worth, Fla.) and Vladimir Wolstencroft (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a distributed security-testing infrastructure is used for attack-tree modeling for penetration testing. An API framework, fully distributed and scalable, is used to access the attack-tree modeling based on attack trees, or decision trees, to emulate attacker behavior and decisions taken during an attack. The API framework allows developers to implement the security tools into existing soft...