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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 21, 2023
Applicant:

Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;

Inventors:

Andrew J. Thomas, Oxfordshire, GB;

Johan Petter Nordwall, Oxfordshire, GB;

Karl Ackerman, Topsfield, MA (US);

Thomas John Walsh, Oxfordshire, GB;

Christoph Georg Hoyer, Linz, AT;

Mirco Stratmann, Dortmund, DE;

Kerav Vaidya, Peterborough, NH (US);

Assignee:

Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 2463/082 (2013.01);
Abstract

When security-related behavior is detected on an endpoint, e.g., through a local security agent executing on the endpoint, a threat management facility associated with the endpoint can interact with a user via a second local security agent on a second endpoint in order to solicit verification, authorization, authentication or the like related to the behavior. In one aspect, an administrator for an enterprise managed by the threat management facility may verify, authorize, or otherwise approve the detected behavior using this technique. In another aspect, a user of the device may use this infrastructure to approve of a potentially risky behavior on one device by using a verification procedure on a second device associated with the user.


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