US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 5 for "DNS recursive PTR signals analysis" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,314, issued on May 5, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"DNS recursive PTR signals analysis" was invented by Christopher Robert Baker (Salem, N.H.), Peter Martin Hanily (Newbridge, Ireland), Ryan Daniel Schilcher (Issaquah, Wash.) and Jonathan Philip Taimanglo (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cyber-security techniques are described for monitoring a cloud environment and identifying potential problems, including malicious threats, to the monitored cloud environment using operational telemetry. Techniques are described for monitoring and collecting data related to reverse or recursive DNS...