Patents by Inventor George Robert Kurtz

George Robert Kurtz 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: 20240028717
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, Sven Krasser
  • Patent number: 11809555
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser
  • Publication number: 20210117544
    Abstract: A security service can determine a synthetic context based at least in part on context data associated with a first malware sample, and detonate the first malware sample in the synthetic context to provide one or more first event records representing events performed by the first malware sample and detected during detonation. Additionally or alternatively, the security service can detonate the first malware sample and locate a second malware sample in a corpus based at least in part on the one or more first event records. Additionally or alternatively, the security service can receive event records representing events detected during a detonation of a first malware sample, the detonation based at least in part on context data, and locate a second malware sample in the corpus based at least in part on the one or more reference event records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: George Robert Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Amol Kulkarni, Jan Miller, Daniel Radu
  • Patent number: 10853491
    Abstract: A security agent is described herein. The security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20200285739
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser
  • Publication number: 20200285740
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser
  • Patent number: 10713356
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser
  • Publication number: 20190138723
    Abstract: A security agent is described herein. The security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 10002250
    Abstract: A security agent is described herein. The security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9904784
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9858626
    Abstract: Techniques for social sharing security information between client entities forming a group are described herein. The group of client entities is formed as a result of a security server providing one or more secure mechanisms for forming a group among client entities, the client entities each belonging to a different organization. The security service then automatically shares security information of a client entity in the group with one or more other client entities in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David Frederick Diehl, Sven Krasser, Adam S. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20170213031
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20170109530
    Abstract: A security agent is described herein. The security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9621515
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9571453
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9292881
    Abstract: Techniques for social sharing security information between client entities forming a group are described herein. The group of client entities is formed as a result of a security server providing one or more secure mechanisms for forming a group among client entities, the client entities each belonging to a different organization. The security service then automatically shares security information of a client entity in the group with one or more other client entities in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser, Adam S. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20150326614
    Abstract: Techniques for social sharing security information between client entities forming a group are described herein. The group of client entities is formed as a result of a security server providing one or more secure mechanisms for forming a group among client entities, the client entities each belonging to a different organization. The security service then automatically shares security information of a client entity in the group with one or more other client entities in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David Frederick Diehl, Sven Krasser, Adam S. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20150244679
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Patent number: 9043903
    Abstract: A kernel-level security agent is described herein. The kernel-level security agent is configured to observe events, filter the observed events using configurable filters, route the filtered events to one or more event consumers, and utilize the one or more event consumers to take action based at least on one of the filtered events. In some implementations, the kernel-level security agent detects a first action associated with malicious code, gathers data about the malicious code, and in response to detecting subsequent action(s) of the malicious code, performs a preventative action. The kernel-level security agent may also deceive an adversary associated with malicious code. Further, the kernel-level security agent may utilize a model representing chains of execution activities and may take action based on those chains of execution activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventors: David F. Diehl, Dmitri Alperovitch, Ion-Alexandru Ionescu, George Robert Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20140250524
    Abstract: Deception-based techniques for responding to security attacks are described herein. The techniques include transitioning a security attack to a monitored computing device posing as a computing device impacted by the security attack and enabling the adversary to obtain deceptive information from the monitored computing device. Also, the adversary may obtain a document configured to report identifying information of an entity opening the document, thereby identifying the adversary associated with the attack. Further, the techniques include determining that a domain specified in a domain name request is associated with malicious activity and responding to the request with a network address of a monitored computing device to cause the requesting process to communicate with the monitored computing device in place of an adversary server. Additionally, a service may monitor dormant domains names associated with malicious activity and, in response to a change, respond with an alert or a configuration update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: CROWDSTRIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Adam S. Meyers, Dmitri Alperovitch, George Robert Kurtz, David F. Diehl, Sven Krasser