Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Stracener

Thomas C. Stracener 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).

  • Interoperability of vulnerability and intrusion detection systems
    Patent number: 7509681
    Abstract: A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a vulnerability detection system (VDS) and an intrusion detection system (IDS). The intrusion detection system leverages off of information gathered about a network, such as vulnerabilities, so that it only examines and alerts the user to potential intrusions that could actually affect the particular network. In addition, both the VDS and IDS may use rules in performing their respective analyses that are query-based and that are easy to construct. In particular, these rules may be based on a set of templates, which represent various entities or processes on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Flowers, Thomas C. Stracener
  • Interoperability of vulnerability and intrusion detection systems
    Patent number: 7162742
    Abstract: A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a vulnerability detection system (VDS) and an intrusion detection system (IDS). The intrusion detection system leverages off of information gathered about a network, such as vulnerabilities, so that it only examines and alerts the user to potential intrusions that could actually affect the particular network. In addition both the VDS and IDS use rules in performing their respective analyses that are query-based and that are easy to construct. In particular these rules are based on a set of templates, which represent various entities or processes on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Flowers, Thomas C. Stracener
  • Method and system for detecting a vulnerability in a network
    Patent number: 7073198
    Abstract: A system and method in accordance with the invention reliably and non-intrusively identifies various conditions of a network. In particular, an embodiment of the invention can identify an operating system, including version and patch level, and a service, including version and patch level, of a remote host on the network. Using this information, an embodiment of the invention can then reliably identify a vulnerability condition of the network. In some embodiments, the operating system and service information can be used to identify a trojan application, unlicensed software use, security policy violations, or even infer vulnerabilities that are yet unknown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Flowers, Thomas C. Stracener
  • Interoperability of vulnerability and intrusion detection systems
    Patent number: 6957348
    Abstract: A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a vulnerability detection system (VDS) and an intrusion detection system (IDS). The intrusion detection system leverages off of information gathered about a network, such as vulnerabilities, so that it only examines and alerts the user to potential intrusions that could actually affect the particular network. In addition both the VDS and IDS use rules in performing their respective analyses that are query-based and that are easy to construct. In particular these rules are based on a set of templates, which represent various entities or processes on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
    Inventors: John S. Flowers, Thomas C. Stracener