Patents by Inventor Alonzo Ellis

Alonzo Ellis 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).

  • Publication number: 20220350885
    Abstract: An incident is created in response to a cyber event. One or more authorities are identified. At least some of the one or more authorities are associated with respective authority conditions and at least some of the respective authority conditions are associated with respective attributes. Satisfaction of the respective authority conditions of an authority identifies the authority. At least some of respective attributes are associated with the incident as incident attributes. Incident attribute values are received from a user for at least some of the incident attributes. Tasks are identified responsive to at least one of the incident attribute values satisfying respective task conditions of the identified tasks. The tasks are then associated with the incident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Anderson Lunsford, William Matthew Hartley, Charles Joseph Dimino, Oran Emmanuel Duncan, Alonzo Ellis, James Green
  • Publication number: 20220114254
    Abstract: Responding to incidents includes creating a playbook of tasks based on a first document constituting an authority, such that at least some of the tasks are completed in response to incidents. A new version of the playbook is created based on differences between the first document and a second document constituting a revision of the authority. Responsive to a first incident, the new version of the playbook is used to respond to the first incident. Creating the new version of the playbook includes at least one of excluding a first task of the playbook from the new version, adding an updated task of a second task of the playbook to the new version, or adding a third task to the new version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Anderson Lunsford, Alonzo Ellis, James Green
  • Patent number: 11244045
    Abstract: Systems and methods for security incident response management are disclosed. A method includes receiving a cyber event; identifying a playbook of tasks, where the playbook constitutes a response to the cyber event, and where a task of the tasks is assignable to a user group; receiving, from a user of the user group, a completion of the task; receiving a proof of completion of the task; and generating an compliance report including the task and the proof of completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Anderson Lunsford, Alonzo Ellis, James Green
  • Publication number: 20200193022
    Abstract: Systems and methods for security incident response management are disclosed. A method includes receiving a cyber event; identifying a playbook of tasks, where the playbook constitutes a response to the cyber event, and where a task of the tasks is assignable to a user group; receiving, from a user of the user group, a completion of the task; receiving a proof of completion of the task; and generating an compliance report including the task and the proof of completion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Anderson Lunsford, Alonzo Ellis, James Green
  • Patent number: 9602530
    Abstract: Multi channel distributed behavioral analysis architecture provides a software solution to the major operational challenges faced with providing an early warning system for impending cyber security events. Most cyber security events are premeditated. However, many current cyber security defense technologies only address the real-time detection of a software vulnerability, the presence of malware (known or unknown “zero day”), anomalies from pre-established data points, or the signature of an active security event. The system and method of the multi channel distributed behavioral analysis architecture introduces a technique which provides the data collection, assessment, and alerting ability prior to the occurrence of an event based on threat actor behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Inventors: Alonzo Ellis, Tim McELwee
  • Publication number: 20160028758
    Abstract: Multi channel distributed behavioral analysis architecture provides a software solution to the major operational challenges faced with providing an early warning system for impending cyber security events. Most cyber security events are premeditated. However, many current cyber security defense technologies only address the real-time detection of a software vulnerability, the presence of malware (known or unknown “zero day”), anomalies from pre-established data points, or the signature of an active security event. The system and method of the multi channel distributed behavioral analysis architecture introduces a technique which provides the data collection, assessment, and alerting ability prior to the occurrence of an event based on threat actor behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Alonzo Ellis, Tim McELwee
  • Patent number: 7086086
    Abstract: An N session distributed architecture provides a software solution to the major computational challenges faced with providing secure communication. A registration entity is identified as the session arbitrator through which N devices on a network dynamically participate in establishing, maintaining and destroying cryptographic sessions. Session keys are generated by one or more devices registered with the registration server. Multiparty key agreement and device (or another form of) authentication is used to pass session keys and security policies to all parties involved in the encrypted session. Network discovery techniques are used to discover parties that will participate in the secure communications. All sessions appear to be local to the arbitration server, however individual sessions are maintained by several devices operating as a collective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Inventor: Alonzo Ellis
  • Publication number: 20030074584
    Abstract: An N session distributed architecture provides a software solution to the major computational challenges faced with providing secure communication. A registration entity is identified as the session arbitrator through which N devices on a network dynamically participate in establishing, maintaining and destroying cryptographic sessions. Session keys are generated by one or more devices registered with the registration server. Multiparty key agreement and device (or another form of) authentication is used to pass session keys and security policies to all parties involved in the encrypted session. Network discovery techniques are used to discover parties that will participate in the secure communications. All sessions appear to be local to the arbitration server, however individual sessions are maintained by several devices operating as a collective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventor: Alonzo Ellis
  • Patent number: 6484257
    Abstract: An N session distributed architecture provides a software solution to the major computational challenges faced with providing secure communication. A registration entity is identified as the session arbitrator through which N devices on a network dynamically participate in establishing, maintaining and destroying cryptographic sessions. Session keys are generated by one or more devices registered with the registration server. Multiparty key agreement is used to pass session keys to all parties involved in the encrypted session. All sessions appear to be local to the arbitration server, however individual session are maintained by several devices operating as a collective. Encrypted stream partitioning and computational resource allocation to decrypt the individual partitions in such way as to ensure system stability with increasing session demands is introduced in the architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Inventor: Alonzo Ellis