Patent 10523609 was granted and assigned to FireEye on December, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A computerized method to coordinate the detection capabilities of an email-based malware detection system with the detection capabilities of a network-based malware detection system and prevent multi-vector cyber-security attacks. The described system detects and analyzes suspicious objects via the email vector and monitors and analyzes associated objects via the network vector, collecting features of each object. The features of associated objects are analyzed, correlated and classified to determine if they are malicious.