US Patent Issued to Sophos on Nov. 11 for "Data augmentation for threat investigation in an enterprise network" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,848, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Data augmentation for threat investigation in an enterprise network" was invented by Kenneth D. Ray (Seattle), Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Karl Ackerman (Topsfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint in an enterprise network is instrumented with sensors to detect security-related events occurring on the endpoint. Event data from these sensors is augmented with contextual information about, e.g., a source of each event in order to facilitate improved correlation, analysis, and visualization at a threat management facilit...