Patents by Inventor Ben Whitham

Ben Whitham 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).

  • Patent number: 12368755
    Abstract: A method of automatically manipulating a lifecycle of a honeyfile on a file system, includes: implementing a learning algorithm on a file system; identifying a real file; training the learning algorithm by observing temporal events involving the real file; training a model with the learning algorithm; implementing a user agent on the file system; creating a honeyfile on the file system; deploying the honeyfile on the file system; using the trained model to generate user agent actions; evaluating the honeyfile; and either: deleting the honeyfile; or re-using the trained model to generate user agent actions to automatically modify the honeyfile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Penten Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz, Kiriya Keat, Connor Brendish
  • Patent number: 12028376
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for creating, managing, and storing synthetic data that is designed to be placed within databases having real data to deceive, attract, detect and/or track unauthorized access thereof. The synthetic data can be stored as a honeyrecord in a database table that is interspersed with real data such that the honeyrecord is indistinguishable from real data or combined to form a honeytable having multiple honeyrecords therein. In some embodiments, the synthetic data can be used to create a user persona having one or more parameters to construct a profile or an identity honeyrecord of an individual. The parameters can include private information such as name, sex, passport number, social security number, bank account or credit card details, biometric details, passwords, and other information that is attractive to hackers and other data thieves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Penten Pty Ltd
    Inventors: David Liebowitz, Ben Whitham, Bryn Evans, Kiriya Keat, Sam Moore
  • Publication number: 20240031406
    Abstract: A method for automatically creating a honeyfile for a file system, includes the steps of: surveying a file set of the file system to identify tokenisable data in the file set, tokenising the identified tokenisable data to form a plurality of token sequences, and either selecting one of the plurality of token sequences or generating a token sequence to operate as an exemplar token sequence; applying a substitution method to substitute the tokens of the exemplar token sequence with replacement tokenisable data; and packaging the replacement tokenisable data into a honeyfile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz
  • Patent number: 11689569
    Abstract: A method for automatically creating a honeyfile for a file system, includes the steps of: surveying a file set of the file system to identify tokenisable data in the file set, tokenising the identified tokenisable data to form a plurality of token sequences, and either selecting one of the plurality of token sequences or generating a token sequence to operate as an exemplar token sequence; applying a substitution method to substitute the tokens of the exemplar token sequence with replacement tokenisable data; and packaging the replacement tokenisable data into a honeyfile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Penten Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz
  • Publication number: 20220286478
    Abstract: A method of automatically manipulating a lifecycle of a honeyfile on a file system, includes: implementing a learning algorithm on a file system; identifying a real file; training the learning algorithm by observing temporal events involving the real file; training a model with the learning algorithm; implementing a user agent on the file system; creating a honeyfile on the file system; deploying the honeyfile on the file system; using the trained model to generate user agent actions; evaluating the honeyfile; and either: deleting the honeyfile; or re-using the trained model to generate user agent actions to automatically modify the honeyfile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Penten Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz, Kiriya Keat, Connor Brendish
  • Publication number: 20220255962
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for creating, managing, and storing synthetic data that is designed to be placed within databases having real data to deceive, attract, detect and/or track unauthorized access thereof. The synthetic data can be stored as a honeyrecord in a database table that is interspersed with real data such that the honeyrecord is indistinguishable from real data or combined to form a honeytable having multiple honeyrecords therein. In some embodiments, the synthetic data can be used to create a user persona having one or more parameters to construct a profile or an identity honeyrecord of an individual. The parameters can include private information such as name, sex, passport number, social security number, bank account or credit card details, biometric details, passwords, and other information that is attractive to hackers and other data thieves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: David Liebowitz, Ben Whitham, Bryn Evans, Kiriya Keat, Sam Moore
  • Patent number: 11330015
    Abstract: A method for automatically creating a honeyfile for a file system, includes the steps of: surveying a file set of the file system to identify tokenisable data in the file set, tokenising the identified tokenisable data to form a plurality of token sequences, and either selecting one of the plurality of token sequences or generating a token sequence to operate as an exemplar token sequence; applying a substitution method to substitute the tokens of the exemplar token sequence with replacement tokenisable data; and packaging the replacement tokenisable data into a honeyfile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Penten Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz
  • Publication number: 20210314356
    Abstract: A method for automatically creating a honeyfile for a file system, includes the steps of: surveying a file set of the file system to identify tokenisable data in the file set, tokenising the identified tokenisable data to form a plurality of token sequences, and either selecting one of the plurality of token sequences or generating a token sequence to operate as an exemplar token sequence; applying a substitution method to substitute the tokens of the exemplar token sequence with replacement tokenisable data; and packaging the replacement tokenisable data into a honeyfile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz
  • Publication number: 20200204590
    Abstract: A method for automatically creating a honeyfile for a file system, includes the steps of: surveying a file set of the file system to identify tokenisable data in the file set, tokenising the identified tokenisable data to form a plurality of token sequences, and either selecting one of the plurality of token sequences or generating a token sequence to operate as an exemplar token sequence; applying a substitution method to substitute the tokens of the exemplar token sequence with replacement tokenisable data; and packaging the replacement tokenisable data into a honeyfile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: PENTEN PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Ben Whitham, David Liebowitz