US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on July 21 for "Generating machine data collection scripts from security policy content" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,662, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Generating machine data collection scripts from security policy content" was invented by Mitesh Lad (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A script generation service is disclosed that parses a security policy to identify data objects controlled by the policy and generate data collection commands in a shell scripting language to collect states of the data objects from machines. In embodiments, the security policy is written in a policy specification language that allows data objects to be specified using references to object entities, variables, other objects, tr...