Patents by Inventor Travis W. Rhodes

Travis W. Rhodes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Validation of security monitoring through automated attack testing
    Patent number: 10614222
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of an automatic attack testing framework for the security testing of an operational service are disclosed. In an example, such systems, devices, and methods may include operations that: deploy command instructions and a payload for a bot process to a computing device located within a target infrastructure, with the command instructions being selected based on criteria to test a security feature in the target infrastructure with an automated attack action in the bot process, and with the bot process being executed on the computing device and being started with use of the command instructions and the payload; communicate with the computing device to control the automated attack action within the target infrastructure, such that the automated attack action is performed within the bot process; and obtain results of the automated attack action performed within the bot process from the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Godard, Art Sadovsky, Travis W. Rhodes, David A. Marshall, Richard A. Lundeen
  • VALIDATION OF SECURITY MONITORING THROUGH AUTOMATED ATTACK TESTING
    Publication number: 20180239902
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of an automatic attack testing framework for the security testing of an operational service are disclosed. In an example, such systems, devices, and methods may include operations that: deploy command instructions and a payload for a bot process to a computing device located within a target infrastructure, with the command instructions being selected based on criteria to test a security feature in the target infrastructure with an automated attack action in the bot process, and with the bot process being executed on the computing device and being started with use of the command instructions and the payload; communicate with the computing device to control the automated attack action within the target infrastructure, such that the automated attack action is performed within the bot process; and obtain results of the automated attack action performed within the bot process from the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Godard, Art Sadovsky, Travis W. Rhodes, David A. Marshall, Richard A. Lundeen