US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on July 14 for "Profiling brute force cyberattacks" (North Carolina, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,981, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Profiling brute force cyberattacks" was invented by Erick Jason Galinkin (Monroe, N.C.) and Curtis Paul Barnard (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement profiling of cyberattacks, where the profiling is performed by a security platform. Profiling of cyberattacks may be performed by determining sets of access attempts that are associated with one or more cyberattacks, where the sets of access attempts are used to profile subsequent access attempts. The security platform may determine whether a given set...