Microsoft Wants LLMs to Do Your Threat Modeling For You
Threat modeling is one of the most time-consuming parts of secure software development. Microsoft is patenting an approach that hands the job…
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Microsoft Patents an AI Prompt Security System That Profiles Both Models and Users
What if your AI assistant could tell when something about a conversation felt off — not because a word matched a blocklist,…
Microsoft Patents AI Agent System for Searching Fragmented Cybersecurity Data
Security teams routinely juggle dozens of databases that don't speak the same language — literally. Microsoft's new patent describes an AI agent…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Reads Security Logs and Summarizes Threats Automatically
Security logs are famously unreadable — thousands of raw lines that analysts have to sift through to find the one event that…
Microsoft Patents a Real-Time Risk-Scoring System for Human and Bot Identities
When an employee — or an automated script — asks for extra permissions, Microsoft's patent wants a risk score calculated on the…
Microsoft Patents Low-Cost Masking Circuit for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum-resistant encryption is only useful if attackers can't extract keys by watching power consumption or timing. Microsoft's new patent targets that exact…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Compute System Blending MPC and Trusted Enclaves
What if you could run a calculation on sensitive data — and none of the computers involved ever saw the raw numbers?…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Ad Attribution System Using Attestation Tokens
Google is trying to solve one of mobile advertising's most contentious problems — figuring out which ad caused you to install an…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Generates Fake Spear Phishing Emails to Train Detectors
What if the best way to catch a phishing email is to first teach an AI to write thousands of convincing ones?…
Apple Patents a Screen-Sharing System That Warns You Before Sharing Sensitive Content
Ever accidentally flashed a bank statement or private message during a screen share? Apple is patenting a system that catches you before…
Microsoft Patents Seasonal-Aware Cloud Usage Anomaly Detection System
Most cloud anomaly detectors treat a Black Friday traffic spike the same as a suspicious breach. Microsoft's new patent tries to fix…
New Browser Patent Detects When Your Medical Data Is Being Leaked
Most privacy tools tell you after your data has been exposed. Microsoft is patenting a system that warns you before you click…
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