US Patent Issued to Workday on Feb. 3 for "Action response framework for data security incidents" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,790, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Action response framework for data security incidents" was invented by Allen Hadden (Marlborough, Mass.) and Kenneth Allen Rogers (Stow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incident manager application (IM) for responding to data security incidents in enterprise networks is disclosed. An IM tracks the incidents in an enterprise network by storing incident objects and incident artifact (IA) metadata created for the incidents, where the incident objects and IAs include information concerning the incidents. Incident response team (IRT) personnel of the enterpr...