US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Dynamic placement of compensating controls on DPU and eBPF based on workload, trust, and threat scoring" (Tennessee, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,668, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic placement of compensating controls on DPU and eBPF based on workload, trust, and threat scoring" was invented by Vincent Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Stephen Craig Connors Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for dynamically placing security controls in a network infrastructure. Input values representing the workload are ingested. A network component is placed in front of the workload to process/filter ingress traffic into the workload. The input values are analyzed to determine the asset crit...