US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on May 12 for "Managing and deploying custom intrusion detection system signature policies" (California, Virginia, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,680, issued on May 12, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Managing and deploying custom intrusion detection system signature policies" was invented by Christophe Leung (Reston, Va.), Kyle Rabago-Banjo (San Francisco) and Grant Blankenship (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for deploying intrusion detection system (IDS) policies to IDS programs are disclosed. Each IDS instance can monitor a data feed (e.g., comprising computer network traffic) in accordance with a set of "signatures" or "rules" associated with its policy, and can issue alerts if any elements of that...