More than 2,000 cybersecurity patent applications filed since 2010: report

The number of cybersecurity patent applications has skyrocketed over the past decade, with U.S. companies leading the way. 

According to French software company IS Decisions, about 2,270 cybersecurity-related patents have been filed since the turn of the century. Nearly all – about 97% – have been filed since 2010, a year that marked a huge spike in global cyberattacks. 

The total number of cyberattacks increased about eightfold that year, according to a report by Kaspersky, while Stuxnet, the malicious …

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