Patents by Inventor Ron Gula

Ron Gula 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: 20230362189
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Marcus J. RANUM, Ron GULA
  • Publication number: 20210344686
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Marcus J. RANUM, Ron GULA
  • Patent number: 11057422
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Patent number: 10791142
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Publication number: 20200162486
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Marcus J. RANUM, Ron GULA
  • Patent number: 10581899
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Patent number: 10447654
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a set of hashes that are associated with files of a user system, and a reference set of hashes that are associated with files of a reference system, may be obtained. An additional subset of hashes (included in the set of hashes and not included in the reference set of hashes) may be obtained based on a comparison between the set of hashes and the reference set of hashes. A file may be predicted to be exclusive for certain users or user systems, where the file is associated with a hash included in the additional subset of hashes. Other user systems may be scanned to determine what files are on the other user systems, where each of the other user systems is assigned to another user or is not one of the user systems. An alert indicating unauthorized activity may be generated based on the scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Marcus Ranum
  • Publication number: 20190089719
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Marcus J. RANUM, Ron GULA
  • Publication number: 20190089718
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Marcus J. RANUM, Ron GULA
  • Patent number: 10171490
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have cataloged to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Publication number: 20180019971
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a set of hashes that are associated with files of a user system, and a reference set of hashes that are associated with files of a reference system, may be obtained. An additional subset of hashes (included in the set of hashes and not included in the reference set of hashes) may be obtained based on a comparison between the set of hashes and the reference set of hashes. A file may be predicted to be exclusive for certain users or user systems, where the file is associated with a hash included in the additional subset of hashes. Other user systems may be scanned to determine what files are on the other user systems, where each of the other user systems is assigned to another user or is not one of the user systems. An alert indicating unauthorized activity may be generated based on the scan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Ron GULA, Marcus RANUM
  • Patent number: 9860265
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage passive and active vulnerability discovery to identify network addresses and open ports associated with connections that one or more passive scanners observed in a network and current connections that one or more active scanners enumerated in the network. The observed and enumerated current connections may be used to model trust relationships and identify exploitable weak points in the network, wherein the exploitable weak points may include hosts that have exploitable services, exploitable client software, and/or exploitable trust relationships. Furthermore, an attack that uses the modeled trust relationships to target the exploitable weak points on a selected host in the network may be simulated to enumerate remote network addresses that could compromise the network and determine an exploitation path that the enumerated remote network addresses could use to compromise the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Renaud Deraison
  • Patent number: 9794223
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating data leakage and/or propagation tracking are provided. In some embodiments, a set of hashes associated with files of a user device and a reference set of hashes associated with files of a reference system may be obtained. An additional subset of hashes included in the set of hashes and not included in the reference set of hashes may be determined. The user device may be classified into a group based on the additional subset of hashes comprising a hash that is the same as a hash associated with a file of at least another user device classified into the group. A prediction that the file is exclusive for the group may be effectuated. Other user devices not classified into the group may be scanned. An alert indicating unauthorized activity may be generated responsive to the scan indicating that the other user devices contain the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: TENABLE NETWORK SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Marcus Ranum
  • Patent number: 9467464
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a log correlation engine that may cross-reference or otherwise leverage existing vulnerability data in an extensible manner to support network vulnerability and asset discovery. In particular, the log correlation engine may receive various logs that contain events describing observed network activity and discover a network vulnerability in response to the logs containing at least one event that matches a regular expression in at least one correlation rule that indicates a vulnerability. The log correlation engine may then obtain information about the indicated vulnerability from at least one data source cross-referenced in the correlation rule and generate a report that the indicated vulnerability was discovered in the network, wherein the report may include the information about the indicated vulnerability obtained from the at least one data source cross-referenced in the correlation rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Marcus Ranum, Renaud Deraison
  • Publication number: 20160285827
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating data leakage and/or propagation tracking are provided. In some embodiments, a set of hashes associated with files of a user device and a reference set of hashes associated with files of a reference system may be obtained. An additional subset of hashes included in the set of hashes and not included in the reference set of hashes may be determined. The user device may be classified into a group based on the additional subset of hashes comprising a hash that is the same as a hash associated with a file of at least another user device classified into the group. A prediction that the file is exclusive for the group may be effectuated. Other user devices not classified into the group may be scanned. An alert indicating unauthorized activity may be generated responsive to the scan indicating that the other user devices contain the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ron GULA, Marcus RANUM
  • Patent number: 9367707
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may use file hashes to track data leakage and document propagation in a network. For example, file systems associated with known reference systems and various user devices may be compared to classify the user devices into various groups based on differences between the respective file systems, identify files unique to the various groups, and detect potential data leakage or document propagation if user devices classified in certain groups include any files that are unique to other groups. Additionally, various algorithms may track locations, movements, changes, and other events that relate to normal or typical activity in the network, which may be used to generate statistics that can be compared to subsequent activities that occur in the network to detect potentially anomalous activity that may represent potential data leakage or document propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: TENABLE NETWORK SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Marcus Ranum
  • Publication number: 20150281259
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Publication number: 20150222655
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage passive and active vulnerability discovery to identify network addresses and open ports associated with connections that one or more passive scanners observed in a network and current connections that one or more active scanners enumerated in the network. The observed and enumerated current connections may be used to model trust relationships and identify exploitable weak points in the network, wherein the exploitable weak points may include hosts that have exploitable services, exploitable client software, and/or exploitable trust relationships. Furthermore, an attack that uses the modeled trust relationships to target the exploitable weak points on a selected host in the network may be simulated to enumerate remote network addresses that could compromise the network and determine an exploitation path that the enumerated remote network addresses could use to compromise the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Ron GULA, Renaud DERAISON
  • Patent number: 9088606
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: TENABLE NETWORK SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Patent number: 9043920
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage passive and active vulnerability discovery to identify network addresses and open ports associated with connections that one or more passive scanners observed in a network and current connections that one or more active scanners enumerated in the network. The observed and enumerated current connections may be used to model trust relationships and identify exploitable weak points in the network, wherein the exploitable weak points may include hosts that have exploitable services, exploitable client software, and/or exploitable trust relationships. Furthermore, an attack that uses the modeled trust relationships to target the exploitable weak points on a selected host in the network may be simulated to enumerate remote network addresses that could compromise the network and determine an exploitation path that the enumerated remote network addresses could use to compromise the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: TENABLE NETWORK SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Ron Gula, Renaud Deraison