ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,082, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cytomate Solutions and Services (Doha, Qatar).
"Battle twin for enhanced OT security" was invented by Muhammad Masoom Alam (Doha, Qatar), Muhammad Laiq (Peshawar, Pakistan) and Hamad Saleh Hadeed (Doha, Qatar).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current OT security solutions mostly provide defensive security involving monitoring and network segmentation. However, offensive security, proven effective in IT systems, is not easily applicable to OT systems due to its sensitive nature and high availability requirements. To conduct offensive security measures in OT networks, the concept of Digital Twins em...