Patents by Inventor Gregory D. Stephens

Gregory D. Stephens 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: 8996681
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users are provided herein. Embodiments include filtering network events over a pre-determined time interval to generate a filtered event list. In an embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated with a nearest-neighbor event relative to the anonymous network event. In another embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated with an event in the filtered event list, wherein that user maximizes an event attribution function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: The Mitre Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory D. Stephens
  • Patent number: 8707431
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for insider threat detection are provided. Embodiments detect insiders who act on documents and/or files to which they have access but whose activity is inappropriate or uncharacteristic of them based on their identity, past activity, and/or organizational context. Embodiments work by monitoring the network to detect network activity associated with a set of network protocols; processing the detected activity to generate information-use events; generating contextual information associated with users of the network; and processing the information-use events based on the generated contextual information to generate alerts and threat scores for users of the network. Embodiments provide several information-misuse detectors that are used to examine generated information-use events in view of collected contextual information to detect volumetric anomalies, suspicious and/or evasive behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory D. Stephens, Marcus A. Maloof
  • Publication number: 20080271143
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for insider threat detection are provided. Embodiments detect insiders who act on documents and/or files to which they have access but whose activity is inappropriate or uncharacteristic of them based on their identity, past activity, and/or organizational context. Embodiments work by monitoring the network to detect network activity associated with a set of network protocols; processing the detected activity to generate information-use events; generating contextual information associated with users of the network; and processing the information-use events based on the generated contextual information to generate alerts and threat scores for users of the network. Embodiments provide several information-misuse detectors that are used to examine generated information-use events in view of collected contextual information to detect volumetric anomalies, suspicious and/or evasive behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory D. Stephens, Marcus A. Maloof
  • Publication number: 20080263197
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users are provided herein. Embodiments include filtering network events over a pre-determined time interval to generate a filtered event list. In an embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated with a nearest-neighbor event relative to the anonymous network event. In another embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated with an event in the filtered event list, wherein that user maximizes an event attribution function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory D. Stephens