Patents by Inventor Eric Hanratty

Eric Hanratty 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).

  • Security rule generation based on cognitive and industry analysis
    Patent number: 11012472
    Abstract: Security rules management mechanisms are provided. A cognitive computing system of the security rules management system ingests natural language content, from one or more corpora, describing features of security attacks, and ingests security event log data from a monitored computing environment. The cognitive computing system processes the natural language content from the one or more corpora and the security event log data to identify attack characteristics applicable to the security event log data. A security rule query engine evaluates existing security rules present in a security rules database to determine if any existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics. In response to the evaluation indicating that no existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics, a security rule generator automatically generates a new security rule based on the attack characteristics, which is then deployed to the monitored computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marina Milazzo, Michael Spisak, Carlos Alberto Lopez Chinchilla, Steven D. McKay, Eric Hanratty
  • Security Rule Generation Based on Cognitive and Industry Analysis
    Publication number: 20200186569
    Abstract: Security rules management mechanisms are provided. A cognitive computing system of the security rules management system ingests natural language content, from one or more corpora, describing features of security attacks, and ingests security event log data from a monitored computing environment. The cognitive computing system processes the natural language content from the one or more corpora and the security event log data to identify attack characteristics applicable to the security event log data. A security rule query engine evaluates existing security rules present in a security rules database to determine if any existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics. In response to the evaluation indicating that no existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics, a security rule generator automatically generates a new security rule based on the attack characteristics, which is then deployed to the monitored computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Marina Milazzo, Michael Spisak, Carlos Alberto Lopez Chinchilla, Steven D. McKay, Eric Hanratty