US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Security determination device, secure system design device, security determination method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,525, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Security determination device, secure system design device, security determination method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Ryosuke Hotchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security determination device comprehensively generates an attack path, which is a chained route of a threat showing execution steps of an attack to be prevented from being established; determines the validity of the attack path; and determines whether a system configuration is secure or insecure, depending on the validity of the attack path."

The patent was filed on June 10, 2024...