MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641049901 A) filed by Easwari Engineering College; and Srm Institute Of Science And Technology, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 20, for 'guided red team pentesting tool.'

Inventor(s) include Krishna Chand. J. A; Rishab Gopal Patil; and Sandra Karunya G.

The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A guided red team penetration testing system includes a phase-oriented workflow orchestration engine configured to navigate users through five sequential penetration testing phases comprising a reconnaissance phase, a scanning and enumeration phase, a gaining access phase, a maintaining access phase, and a clearing tracks phase; a graphical user interface layer operatively coupled to a tool execution engine; and a session memory handler. The tool execution engine is configured to securely invoke external penetration testing utilities through parameterized subprocess mechanisms and to stream captured output to the graphical user interface layer in real time. The system further comprises a contextual guidance module... A reporting engine compiles session data into structured assessment documentation... The system further comprises an ethical safeguard mechanism configured to enforce authorization confirmation prior to execution of exploitation-phase tools within authorized and educational security testing environments."

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