IBM Patents a System That Automatically Finds Sensitive Data Hiding in Databases
Most companies don't actually know where all their sensitive data lives — it's buried somewhere between the app your employees use and…
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IBM Patents a Gesture-Based Authentication System Using Machine Learning
Forget passwords or fingerprints — IBM is exploring whether the way *you* move your hand in space could be enough to prove…
IBM Patents an AI System That Flags IT Config Policy Gaps Automatically
Manually auditing whether a sprawling cloud environment actually follows your security policies is tedious, error-prone work. IBM's new patent describes an AI…
IBM Patents a Secret Manager for Locking Down Cloud Workload Credentials
Every time a cloud app spins up, it needs passwords, API keys, and certificates — and those secrets are often the weakest…
Google Patents a Sandboxed Ad Auction System Built on Trusted Execution Environments
Google is patenting a way to run ad auctions inside hardware-enforced sandboxes so that the code doing the bidding can never leak…
Google Patents a System That Grabs Abandoned Domains Before Hackers Can
Forgotten subdomains are a surprisingly common attack vector — a company decommissions a cloud service but leaves the DNS record pointing nowhere,…
Google Patents a Phone Incognito Mode That Swaps Your Cellular Identity
Browsers have had incognito mode for years — Google now wants to bring that same concept to your phone's cellular identity, swapping…
Microsoft Patents a Dynamic Compliance-Checking System for App Data Access
Before an app can touch sensitive data, Microsoft's new patent wants to check whether that app is actually playing by the rules…
Microsoft Patents a Key Rotation System That Never Exposes Your Encrypted Data
Rotating encryption keys is a security best practice — but doing it usually means either holding onto old keys or laboriously re-encrypting…
Microsoft Patents a Security Engine That Blocks Files Based on Filename Tricks and Device History
Malware often hides in plain sight — a file named 'Report.pdf.exe' looks like a document but runs like a program. Microsoft's new…
Microsoft Patents a Multi-Layer Security Graph Engine for Cloud Incident Management
Managing cloud security means juggling thousands of interconnected resources — servers, identities, permissions, network paths — and querying all of that in…
Google Patents a Timed Rotation System for Ephemeral Cryptographic Keys
Every secure connection you make relies on cryptographic keys — and how often those keys rotate is a quiet but critical detail.…
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