Patents by Inventor Curtis Barnard

Curtis Barnard 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).

  • Honeypot Network Management Based on Probabilistic Detection of Malicious Port Activity
    Publication number: 20240031407
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for probabilistically identifying anomalous levels of honeypot activity. A honeypot dataset associated with a honeypot network is received and a representative usage value is determined from the honeypot dataset. The representative usage value is identified as being associated with anomalous behavior if the representative usage value deviates from an expected probability distribution. A remediation operation is initiated in the honeypot network in response to the identification of the representative usage value as being associated with the anomalous behavior by virtue of the representative usage value deviating from the expected probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Rapid7, Inc.
    Inventors: Wah-Kwan Lin, Curtis Barnard
  • Probabilistically identifying anomalous honeypot activity
    Patent number: 11777988
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for probabilistically identifying anomalous levels of honeypot activity. A honeypot dataset associated with a honeypot network is received and a representative usage value is determined from the honeypot dataset. The representative usage value is identified as being associated with anomalous behavior if the representative usage value deviates from an expected probability distribution. A remediation operation is initiated in the honeypot network in response to the identification of the representative usage value as being associated with the anomalous behavior by virtue of the representative usage value deviating from the expected probability distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rapid7, Inc.
    Inventors: Wah-Kwan Lin, Curtis Barnard