US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Nov. 3 for "Network intrusion detection using node significance analysis" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,224, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Network intrusion detection using node significance analysis" was invented by Wah-Kwan Lin (Melrose, Mass.) and Paul Deardorff (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a graph analysis-based assessment to determine relative node significance. Network traffic data associated with a network may be obtained. A graph analysis-based assessment of the network may be performed to determine network traffic paths between a plurality of nodes in the network based at least in part on the network traffic data and to calc...