Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing cybersecurity risk level of a portfolio of companies using a cybersecurity risk multiplier
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Application No.: US17240058Application Date: 2021-04-26
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Publication No.: US11657352B2Publication Date: 2023-05-23
- Inventor: Jue Mo , Luis Vargas , A. Robert Sohval
- Applicant: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
- Current Assignee: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/06
- IPC: G06Q10/06 ; H04L9/40 ; G06Q10/0635

Abstract:
A multiplier is utilized to quantify a cybersecurity risk level of a portfolio of entities (e.g., companies) and enable actions to mitigate that quantified risk. In doing so, features or attributes of one or more companies in a portfolio are compared to features or attributes of one or more companies that experienced an adverse cybersecurity event (e.g. a data breach). Further, a degree of dependency, such as a matrix of a number of shared vendors and the proximity of those vendors to the companies, can be measured between (1) portfolio companies and one or more companies that experienced a cybersecurity event, and/or (2) the portfolio companies themselves to better quantify the risk. That is, to more meaningfully analyze a cybersecurity event that occurred at one or more companies and better predict the likelihood of an occurrence at portfolio companies, embodiments can determine an n-degree interdependency between companies.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210264336A1 REDUCING CYBERSECURITY RISK LEVEL OF A PORTFOLIO OF COMPANIES USING A CYBERSECURITY RISK MULTIPLIER Public/Granted day:2021-08-26
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