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US 11,153,349 B2Granted
Inferential analysis using feedback for extracting and combining cyber risk information
AssigneeGuidewire Software, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Y. Ng, Brian Wu, Ming Yang, Paul Yang, Fernando Tancioco, Jr.
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Abstract
Inferential analysis includes: assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least one accessible Internet elements; automatically determining, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy; and automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, a computer network change to reduce the assessed risk.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least one accessible Internet elements, wherein the assessing of the risk comprises:
- determining circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity based on the collected information;
- confirming or inferring that the entity is referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity being referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information by cross-referencing data in the collected information;
- determining whether the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity is respectively negative or positive;
- and
- in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be negative, increasing the assessed risk;
- or in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be positive, decreasing the assessed risk;
- automatically determining, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy;
- automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, a computer network change to reduce the assessed risk;
- determining that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change;
- initiating a change or a setting to the at least one element of policy criteria of the cyber security policy;
- and
- estimating at least one impact to the entity for the cyber security failure, the estimating being dynamically calculated based at least in part on the determination that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change.
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A system, comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- assess risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least one accessible Internet elements, wherein to assess the risk comprises to:
- determine circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity based on the collected information;
- confirm or infer that the entity is referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity being referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information by cross-referencing data in the collected information;
- determine whether the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity is respectively negative or positive;
- and
- in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be negative, increase the assessed risk;
- or in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be positive, decrease the assessed risk;
- automatically determine, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy;
- automatically recommend, based on the assessed risk, a computer network change to reduce the assessed risk;
- determine that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change;
- initiate a change or a setting to the at least one element of policy criteria of the cyber security policy;
- and
- estimate at least one impact to the entity for the cyber security failure, the estimation being dynamically made based at least in part on the determination that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change;
- and
- one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, configured to provide the one or more processors with instructions.
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A computer program product embodied in a tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least one accessible Internet elements, wherein the assessing of the risk comprises:
- determining circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity based on the collected information;
- confirming or inferring that the entity is referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity being referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information by cross-referencing data in the collected information;
- determining whether the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity is respectively negative or positive;
- and
- in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be negative, increasing the assessed risk;
- or in response to the circumstantial or indirect information indicative of the entity being determined to be positive, decreasing the assessed risk;
- automatically determining, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy;
- determining that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change;
- initiating a change or a setting to the at least one element of policy criteria of the cyber security policy;
- and
- estimating at least one impact to the entity for the cyber security failure, the estimating being dynamically calculated based at least in part on the determination that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network change;
- and
- automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, a computer network change to reduce the assessed risk.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.