US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Penetration testing for API service security" (Dutch, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,445, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Penetration testing for API service security" was invented by Hendrikus G.P. Bosch (Aalsmeer, Netherlands), Alessandro Duminuco (Milan) and Sape Jurrien Mullender (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method comprises: obtaining an application programming interface (API) specification for an API service; performing one or more tests on the API service to determine an amount of deviation between the API service and the API specification; and determining a deviation score based on the amount of deviation between the API...