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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Lee Mace, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew White Wicker, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In network security systems, graph-based techniques may be employed to generate 'thumbprints' of security incidents, which may thereafter be used, e.g., for threat actor attribution or the identification of similar incidents. In various embodiments, each security incident is represented by a graph in which security events correspond to nodes, and which encodes associated metadata in additional nodes and/or node/edge attributes. Graph representation learning may be used to compute node and/or edge embeddings, which can then be aggregated into the thumbprint of the incident.