Patents by Inventor Christiaan Beek
Christiaan Beek 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).
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Patent number: 11966477Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generic process chain entity mapping. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to receive process chain input data, the input data including a system path, identify a match between a path alias and the input data, wherein the path alias includes an alias for one or more system path format patterns, extract at least one of (1) metadata information or (2) command line parameter information from the match, and output transformed data based on the at least one of the extracted metadata information or command line parameter information, the transformed data output in a generalized format.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MUSARUBRA US LLCInventors: Niall Fitzgerald, Jonathan King, Christiaan Beek
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Patent number: 11941119Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to allow for the mitigation of ransomware. For example, the system can determine that an application begins to execute, determine that the application attempts to modify a file, determine a file type for the file, and create a security event if the application is not authorized to modify the file type. In another example, the system determines an entropy value between the file and the attempted modification of the file, and create a security event if the entropy value satisfies a threshold or determine a system entropy value that includes a rate at which other files on the system are being modified by the application, and create a security event if the system entropy value satisfies a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Craig D. Schmugar, Cedric Cochin, Andrew Furtak, Adam James Carrivick, Yury Bulygin, John J. Loucaides, Oleksander Bazhaniuk, Christiaan Beek, Carl D. Woodward, Ronald Gallella, Gregory Michael Heitzmann, Joel R. Spurlock
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Publication number: 20230401314Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to classify malware with explainability are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry. The example processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to: generate feature vectors from a first input; train a neural network model using a first portion of the feature vectors; add one or more fully connected layers to the trained neural network model to form a hybrid model; validate the hybrid model using a second portion of the feature vectors; and deploy the validated hybrid model as a malware classifier, the malware classifier to provide a malware classification with explainability in response to a second input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Sorcha Healy, Christiaan Beek
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Publication number: 20230222220Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generic process chain entity mapping. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to receive process chain input data, the input data including a system path, identify a match between a path alias and the input data, wherein the path alias includes an alias for one or more system path format patterns, extract at least one of (1) metadata information or (2) command line parameter information from the match, and output transformed data based on the at least one of the extracted metadata information or command line parameter information, the transformed data output in a generalized format.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Niall Fitzgerald, Jonathan King, Christiaan Beek
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Publication number: 20230214485Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry at least executes or instantiates the instructions to receive a group of indicators from a campaign attack, then query an indicator database with an indicator from the group of indicators, and then predict an identification of the campaign attack in response to the indicator having a current deterministic indicator and confidence scoring (DISC) score in the indicator database, wherein the DISC score represents at least one of a lethality component, a determinism component, or a confidence component of the indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Christiaan Beek, John Fokker, Steve Grobman
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Patent number: 11244047Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; a network interface to communicatively couple to a backup client; a storage to receive backup data from the client, including a plurality of versions and an associated reputation for each version, the associated reputation to indicate a probability that the version is valid; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive from the backup client a request to store a new version of the backup data; determine that the client has exceeded a backup threshold; identify a backup version having a lowest reputation for validity; and expunge the backup version having the lowest reputation for validity.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Igor Muttik, Simon Hunt, Cedric Cochin, Craig Schmugar, Robert Leong, Christiaan Beek, Yury Bulygin
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Publication number: 20210019411Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to allow for the mitigation of ransomware. For example, the system can determine that an application begins to execute, determine that the application attempts to modify a file, determine a file type for the file, and create a security event if the application is not authorized to modify the file type. In another example, the system determines an entropy value between the file and the attempted modification of the file, and create a security event if the entropy value satisfies a threshold or determine a system entropy value that includes a rate at which other files on the system are being modified by the application, and create a security event if the system entropy value satisfies a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: McAfee, LLCInventors: Craig D. Schmugar, Cedric Cochin, Andrew Furtak, Adam James Carrivick, Yury Bulygin, John J. Loucaides, Oleksander Bazhaniuk, Christiaan Beek, Carl D. Woodward, Ronald Gallella, Gregory Michael Heitzmann, Joel R. Spurlock
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Patent number: 10831893Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to allow for the mitigation of ransomware. For example, the system can determine that an application begins to execute, determine that the application attempts to modify a file, determine a file type for the file, and create a security event if the application is not authorized to modify the file type. In another example, the system determines an entropy value between the file and the attempted modification of the file, and create a security event if the entropy value satisfies a threshold or determine a system entropy value that includes a rate at which other files on the system are being modified by the application, and create a security event if the system entropy value satisfies a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Craig D. Schmugar, Cedric Cochin, Andrew Furtak, Adam James Carrivick, Yury Bulygin, John J. Loucaides, Oleksander Bazhaniuk, Christiaan Beek, Carl D. Woodward, Ronald Gallella, Gregory Michael Heitzmann, Joel R. Spurlock
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Publication number: 20200034532Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; a network interface to communicatively couple to a backup client; a storage to receive backup data from the client, including a plurality of versions and an associated reputation for each version, the associated reputation to indicate a probability that the version is valid; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: receive from the backup client a request to store a new version of the backup data; determine that the client has exceeded a backup threshold; identify a backup version having a lowest reputation for validity; and expunge the backup version having the lowest reputation for validity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: McAfee, LLCInventors: Igor Muttik, Simon Hunt, Cedric Cochin, Craig Schmugar, Robert Leong, Christiaan Beek, Yury Bulygin
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Patent number: 10423782Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: an interface to a backup source in a current state; a backup storage having stored thereon a first backup version of a previous state of the source; and a backup engine to: compute a delta between the current state and the previous state; save via the backup storage a second backup version sufficient to reconstruct the current state; and assign the second backup version a reputation relative to one or more previous backup versions.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: McAfee, LLCInventors: Igor G. Muttik, Simon Hunt, Cedric Cochin, Craig D. Schmugar, Robert Leong, Christiaan Beek, Yury Bulygin
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Publication number: 20180173874Abstract: There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: an interface to a backup source in a current state; a backup storage having stored thereon a first backup version of a previous state of the source; and a backup engine to: compute a delta between the current state and the previous state; save via the backup storage a second backup version sufficient to reconstruct the current state; and assign the second backup version a reputation relative to one or more previous backup versions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: McAfee, LLCInventors: Igor G. Muttik, Simon Hunt, Cedric Cochin, Craig D. Schmugar, Robert Leong, Christiaan Beek, Yury Bulygin
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Publication number: 20180018458Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to allow for the mitigation of ransomware. For example, the system can determine that an application begins to execute, determine that the application attempts to modify a file, determine a file type for the file, and create a security event if the application is not authorized to modify the file type. In another example, the system determines an entropy value between the file and the attempted modification of the file, and create a security event if the entropy value satisfies a threshold or determine a system entropy value that includes a rate at which other files on the system are being modified by the application, and create a security event if the system entropy value satisfies a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: McAfee, Inc.Inventors: Craig D. Schmugar, Cedric Cochin, Andrew Furtak, Adam James Carrivick, Yury Bulygin, John J. Loucaides, Oleksander Bazhaniuk, Christiaan Beek, Carl D. Woodward, Ronald Gallella, Gregory Michael Heitzmann, Joel R. Spurlock
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Patent number: 9643795Abstract: A gripper for holding an item formed from a pliable sheet material includes a body, a first contact member located a fixed position relative to the body, a second contact member which is movable into a closed position to fixate the sheet material between the first contact member and the second contact member, a first positioning member and a second positioning member located in a fixed position relative to the body. The second contact member is connected to a support movable along a trajectory to move the second contact member in the open position and in the closed position, the support including a third positioning member attached to the support to move along with the support, where the third positioning member is magnetically engaged by the first positioning member in the open position and by the second positioning member in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V.Inventors: Jacob Volkers, Rombert Christiaan Beek
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Publication number: 20160332825Abstract: A gripper for holding an item formed from a pliable sheet material includes a body, a first contact member located a fixed position relative to the body, a second contact member which is movable into a closed position to fixate the sheet material between the first contact member and the second contact member, a first positioning member and a second positioning member located in a fixed position relative to the body. The second contact member is connected to a support movable along a trajectory to move the second contact member in the open position and in the closed position, the support including a third positioning member attached to the support to move along with the support, where the third positioning member is magnetically engaged by the first positioning member in the open position and by the second positioning member in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Jacob Volkers, Rombert Christiaan Beek