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…
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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.…
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…
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,…
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