US Patent Issued to Sophos on Sept. 29 for "Security threat monitoring for network-accessible devices" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,384, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Security threat monitoring for network-accessible devices" was invented by Karl Ackerman (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects related to threat management are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring network traffic on a computer network that includes a plurality of endpoints, identifying a software application executing on at least one endpoint from one or more of the sent data or the received data, where execution of the software application is associated with a startup time window and a post-startup time window, d...