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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2024
Sophos Limited, Abingdon, GB;
Dmitry Samosseiko, Vancouver, CA;
Fraser Peter Howard, Oxford, GB;
Michael David Wood, Vancouver, CA;
Andrew James Thomas, Abingdon, GB;
Benjamin James Humphrey, Norfolk, GB;
Xiaochuan Zhang, Abingdon, GB;
Paul Barrie Ducklin, Oxford, GB;
Anand Ajjan, New Westminster, CA;
SOPHOS LIMITED, Abingdon Oxfordshhire, GB;
Abstract
Various aspects related to methods, systems, and computer readable media for detection and blocking of security threats for network-accessible devices. Methods can include monitoring network traffic on a computer network, detecting an indication of a security threat to at least one endpoint, determining that the device threat type is a threat type that requires elevated security measures, responsive to the determining that the device threat type requires elevated security measures, updating a network-access policy for the plurality of endpoints with the threat type, and after the updating, automatically remediating the security threat on the at least one endpoint within a first time period.