US Patent Issued to WITHSECURE on Nov. 4 for "Arrangement and method of privilege escalation detection in a computer or computer network" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,988, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to WITHSECURE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Arrangement and method of privilege escalation detection in a computer or computer network" was invented by Jarno Niemela (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement and a method of privilege escalation detection in a computer or computer network. The method comprises examining which executables are running in a target host; searching from a behavioral data source behavioral information of the executables running in the target host; including in a first list identification information of executables running in the target host which the behavioral informat...