US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Active agent for detection of bridges to an air-gapped network" (Pennsylvania, Colorado, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,915, issued on Aug. 25.

"Active agent for detection of bridges to an air-gapped network" was invented by David Collins (Philadelphia), Frank Iacovino (Philadelphia), Shea Nangle (Athens, Ga.), Alex Muentz (Philadelphia) and Matt Mahler (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for detecting breaches in air-gapped networks through the use of agent-based software. The agent actively attempts to connect to external services outside the air-gapped network, and if any of these attempts are successful, an alert is triggered. This provides a proactive method for verifying the in...