US Patent Issued to Vercrio on May 12 for "Mitigating risk from multi-factor authentication fatigue attacks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,707, issued on May 12, was assigned to Vercrio Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mitigating risk from multi-factor authentication fatigue attacks" was invented by Anthony Rajakumar (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system identifies and mitigates the effectiveness of a Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Fatigue attack. The attack may be detected based on the number of requests for authentication received for a user within a predetermined time window, or through user or administrator input. Once detected, the authentication system is placed in a safe mode to mitigate the MFA Fatigue attack. In safe mode, all pend...