Patents by Inventor Patrick Collard
Patrick Collard 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: 12726519Abstract: Techniques for traffic shaping are described. In some examples, an ingress point receives traffic from a source and determines to send the traffic to a traffic shaper instance. The shaper instance is capable of performing one or more of a plurality of actions, wherein the plurality of actions include altering a shape of the traffic prior to sending the traffic to an original destination of the traffic, re-directing the traffic to a honeypot, allowing the traffic without doing altering action, and blocking the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2024Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Goodman, Daniel Allan Lundahl Dutrow, John Paul Schweitzer, Michael Lyle Artz, Patrick Collard, Ethan Joseph Torretta, Thomas Bradley Scholl, Eric Jason Brandwine
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Patent number: 12701122Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for the monitoring and characterization of network access activities as indicative of enumeration of network resources. A monitoring and mitigation service can monitor attributes of network resource access to characterize or identify the likelihood of enumeration activities. The characterization can be expressed as a confidence value based on historical access information. For characterizations that exceed a threshold, the monitoring and mitigation service can then identify network mitigation techniques to mitigate the impact or potential for enumeration.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 4, 2026Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Patrick Collard, Stephen Goodman, John Paul Schweitzer, Luke Kenneth Schubert, William Kupersanin, Jacob Nguyen, Elisabeth Margaret Nagy, Wayne Alan Fullen, Michael Lowney, Jared Sylvester, Thomas Bradley Scholl, Kushal Mall, Darshan Narayana Reddy, Bradford Sachin Chatterjee, Gregory Stephen Molchany, Ravi Karnam, Edward Brindley
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Patent number: 12592946Abstract: Approaches presented herein relate to the monitoring of network traffic, and identification of potentially malicious behavior, in a networked resource environment. Values for key features of interest can be extracted from monitored network traffic. This data can be aggregated for one or more data dimensions, such as for a given region, and modeling can be performed to generate distributions for those values in that region. A threshold can be applied to this distribution to identify anomalous activity, where the same threshold can be applied to distributions for different regions and the values that meet or exceed that threshold will differ across regions based at least in part upon different levels of activity or different behavior. Such an approach scales with changes in the amount or type of traffic to be monitored, and can handle very large numbers of resources and volumes of traffic. If potentially malicious behavior is identified, one or more remedial or mitigation actions may be taken.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Catherine Watkins, Wayne Alan Fullen, Jared Sylvester, Patrick Collard, Evripidis Paraskevas, Jacob Nguyen, John Paul Schweitzer, Luke Kenneth Schubert, Michael Lowney, Parnavi Tamhankar, Stephen Goodman, William Kupersanin, Ravi Karnam, Sai Srinivas Vemula, Sameer Anil Murudkar
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Patent number: 12149559Abstract: Described are systems and methods for determining a reputation score and/or a confidence score for a network identifier that represents, respectively, a likelihood that the network identifier presents a threat and/or a likelihood that the network activity associated with the network identifier corresponds to a port scanning, enumeration, or other malicious event. Embodiments of the present disclosure can utilize various network telemetry information, such as authentication activity, outbound traffic activity, web activity, honeypot connection activity, or network classification information to determine the reputation and/or confidence scores in response to a query/request and/or in connection with potentially malicious activity that can represent a likelihood that the detected potentially malicious activity is malicious/legitimate and the potential impact that remediation measures taken against the network identifier may have in the event that the detected network activity was legitimate.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Alan Fullen, Patrick Collard, William Kupersanin, Michael Lowney, Jared Sylvester, Catherine Watkins, Stephen Goodman, Ravi Karnam, Jacob Nguyen, Luke Kenneth Schubert, Elisabeth Margaret Nagy, Evripidis Paraskevas, John Paul Schweitzer, Sai Srinivas Vemula
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Publication number: 20240291843Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
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Patent number: 11997122Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
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Publication number: 20230033117Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
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Patent number: 11477223Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc.Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser
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Publication number: 20210218764Abstract: Methods and systems for the detection, identification, analysis of cybersecurity events in order to support prevention of the persistence of threats, malware or other harmful events are provided. The methods and systems of the present invention enable a user to find similar anomalous network traffic within a single network or across multiple networks. The methods and systems identify and correlate activity in order to analyze potential threats within a network by providing broader contextual information about how those threats relate to other activity within the network or across a sector or country.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Michael Lowney, Phillip Baker Schafer, Alexander Michael Conn, Patrick Collard, Stephen Kinser