US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Sept. 22 for "Removing noisy intrusion detection system rules that generate excessive alerts" (British, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,817, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Removing noisy intrusion detection system rules that generate excessive alerts" was invented by Luis Lopes (Galway, Ireland), Sarah Addis (Belfast, Great Britain), Martin Hutchings (Belfast, Great Britain), Ralph McTeggart (Belfast, Great Britain) and Niall Cochrane (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New intrusion detection system (IDS) rules to be deployed on an IDS that generates alerts based on an applied ruleset are accessed. A trial window that includes incorporating the new IDS rules into a candidate list to enable summarization and filtering o...