US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Nov. 3 for "Detection of anomalous data exfiltration using intelligent detection thresholds" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,221, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Detection of anomalous data exfiltration using intelligent detection thresholds" was invented by Vasudha Shivamoggi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Roy Hodgman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods of anomalous data transfer detection, including determining hotspots for an asset of an organization. The hotspots correspond to one or more periods of time in which outbound data from the asset satisfies a hotspot threshold determined to be indicative of high outbound data traffic activity. A subset of data that does not correspo...