US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 8 for "Optimizing networks microsegmentation policy for cyber resilience" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,526, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Optimizing networks microsegmentation policy for cyber resilience" was invented by Steven Earl Noel (Woodbridge, Va.), Vipin Swarup (McLean, Va.) and Karin Luisa Johnsgard (Street, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system and method for improving cyber resilience for determining an optimal security policy for a network. The system uses an objective function to balance cyberattack risks, accessibility to network resources, resource limitations, minimum mission availability requirements within a network environment, or a combination thereof. ...