US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 15 for "Configurable playbooks in an IT and security operations application" (California, South Carolina, Missouri, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,452, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configurable playbooks in an IT and security operations application" was invented by Matthew Hanson (San Jose, Calif.), Kelby Jordan Shelton (Grandview, Mo.), Robert Wylie Gresham (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Philip Royer (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a new "capability block" for information technology (IT) and security operations application playbooks. A capability block broadly enables playbook creators to create automations including generic actions that are not tied to computing environment-specific a...