ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,220, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Graph-based analysis of security incidents" was invented by Nisha Shahul Hameed (Seattle), Rishi Dev Jha (Bellevue, Wash.) and Evan John Argyle (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In network security systems, graph-based techniques can be used to analyze data collected for a particular security incident, e.g., a command-and-control incident. In example embodiments, data extracted from data records of network activity and/or security alerts is used to generate a multipartite graph in which different entities (e.g., machines, processe...