US Patent Issued to QOMPLX on March 17 for "Master ledger and local host log extension detection and mitigation of forged authentication attacks" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,898, issued on March 17, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Master ledger and local host log extension detection and mitigation of forged authentication attacks" 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 implementation of zero trust computer network security combined with stateful authentication object tracking, authentication object manipulation and forgery detection, and assessment of authentication and identity attack surface. The methodology involves gathering all authentication objects issued by a network, storing the authentic...