US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Security configuration optimizer systems and methods" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,075, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Security configuration optimizer systems and methods" was invented by Jonathan James Currey (Berkeley, Calif.), Robert Earle McKinstry (Pittsburgh) and Armon Memaran Dadgar (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security configuration optimizer system and methods create optimized access control policies. The systems and methods analyze constraints on the secured system and produce a plurality of proposals for an updated security configuration. The proposals are analyzed and filtered. A resulting set of proposals are graded or ranked ...