US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "AI-based honeypot to mitigate social engineering cyberattack" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,539, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AI-based honeypot to mitigate social engineering cyberattack" was invented by M. David Hanes (Lewisville, N.C.), Amanda L. Holst (Campbell, Calif.), Sudha Katgeri (Allen, Texas), Ana M Montenegro (Mexico City) and Ishita Maheshkumar Thanki (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes creating, via a server, a plurality of virtualized human personalities associated with respective human users; receiving, via the server, a cyberattack message; determining, via the server, the cyberattack message targets a human user of the respectiv...