US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 17 for "Training trusted users of an enterprise network for phishing attacks on a per-user basis" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,961, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Training trusted users of an enterprise network for phishing attacks on a per-user basis" was invented by Farshiya Meharunnisa (Bangalore, India) and Sudheer Nagurla (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user behavior training model is generated, using machine learning, from tracking a plurality of trusted users for interactions with respect to a plurality of monitored phishing e-mails. When a unique phishing attack is detected from an incoming email, a new campaign is initiated. A unique phishing attack email that is modified by the user behav...