US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Proactive mitigation of dormant attack paths" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,132, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive mitigation of dormant attack paths" was invented by Benjamin William Ryder (Lausanne, Switzerland), Marcelo Yannuzzi (Nuvilly, Switzerland), Jean Andrei Diaconu (Gaillard, France), Allan Guy Jacques Delautre (Bourbourg, France) and Herve Muyal (Gland, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device may generate variants of a cloud-native application modified to simulate vulnerabilities. The device may identify dormant attack paths in the variants susceptible to activation. The device may update an attack path knowledg...