Patents by Inventor Ben Akrill

Ben Akrill 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: 20250267156
    Abstract: Implemented within a cyber security appliance, a non-transitory storage medium configured to store software that, when executed, conducts data loss prevention evaluation of an email message to protect against exfiltration of sensitive data from an enterprise. The software includes an email protection module and high availability (HA) fail-open control logic. The email protection module includes email threat detection logic to analyze content associated with an outbound or lateral email message for potential data loss characteristics. The HA fail-open control logic is configured to (i) detect operational failure of the email protection module or intake disruption of email messages via an Application Programming Interface (API) providing access to the email protection module and (ii) redirect the email messages to HA cloud infrastructure pertaining to the enterprise for temporary storage and subsequent release of the redirected email messages upon detecting the operational failure or the intake disruption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen Pickman, Ben Akrill, Will Hodkinson, Steven Haworth, James Wingar
  • Publication number: 20250030744
    Abstract: A security awareness training system can include a recognition module, a mapping module, a customized training module, and an authentication module. The recognition module can detect when behavioral activity by an end user on an endpoint device creates one or more of i) a model breach indicative of a potential cyber threat and ii) a violation of a network policy, an email policy, or a cloud policy. The authentication module can cooperate with the recognition module to provide just-in-time cyber security awareness training on a display screen of the endpoint device associated with that specific end user, at a time when the behavioral activity by the end user on the endpoint device creates the one or more of i) the model breach indicative of the potential cyber threat and ii) the violation of the network policy, the email policy, or the cloud policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Constance Stride, Stephen Pickman, Matthew Ferguson, Matt Dunn, Ben Akrill, Daisy Butler