ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,523, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Dynamic authentication attack detection and enforcement at network, application, and host level" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamic authentication attack detection an enforcement at the network, application, and host level that enables zero trust network security principles when combined with stateful authentication object tracking, authentication object manipulation and forgery detection, and assessment of authentication and identity attack surface. The method...