US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Method to detect and prevent business email compromise (BEC) attacks associated with new employees" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,401, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to detect and prevent business email compromise (BEC) attacks associated with new employees" was invented by Suresh Gopathy (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Gajendar Pandey (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an email-security detection system to analyze incoming emails for Business Email Comprise (BEC) attacks of targeted new email users in an enterprise based on peer models of email recipients in an enterprise and the conversation history of recipients. A method is disclosed that includes analyzing an incoming email and identifyin...