US Patent Issued to SAP on June 2 for "Computer system attack detection" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,431, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Computer system attack detection" was invented by Laurent Y. Gomez (Le Cannet, France), Cedric R. J. Hebert (Mougins, France) and Slim Trabelsi (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a combination of machine learning and rule-based techniques are used to automatically detect social engineering attacks in a computer system. More particularly, three phases of detection are utilized on communications in a thread or stream of communications: attack contextualization, intention classification, and security policy violation detection. Each ph...