US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on Dec. 30 for "Identifying threat similarity using forensics clustering" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,192, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identifying threat similarity using forensics clustering" was invented by Garrick Dasbach (Carmel, Ind.) and Jonathan Ogilvie (Westfield, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and products for identifying "similar" threats by clustering the threats based on corresponding forensics. A corpus of forensic data for a plurality of threat URLs is obtained by a threat protection system, the data including forensic elements corresponding to each threat URLs. For each pair of threat URLs, the corresponding forensic elements are examined to identify sh...