US Patent Issued to FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES on July 28 for "Detecting network attacks based on quantum-safety of connections" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,783, issued on July 28, was assigned to FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting network attacks based on quantum-safety of connections" was invented by Robert McNutt (Cream Ridge, N.J.) and Daniel Ricardo dos Santos (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device is configured to detect potential encryption downgrades in network communications. The processing device accesses network traffic and detects an attempted first connection between a first entity and a second entity in which the first entity offered at least one post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm to encrypt the attempted fi...