US Patent Issued to VMWare on March 25 for "System and method for capturing malicious flows and associated context for threat analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,859, issued on March 25, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for capturing malicious flows and associated context for threat analysis" was invented by Robin Manhas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nafisa Mandliwala (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sirisha Myneni (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Srinivas Ramaswamy (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide, for an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) engine operating on a host computer deployed in a software-defined datacenter (SDDC), a method for detecting and analyzing malicious packet flows. Upon detecting a new packet fl...