IP Library Granted Patent US 11,146,585
Granted Patent B2
US 11,146,585 · App. 16/582,977 · Granted Oct 12, 2021

Disaster scenario based inferential analysis using feedback for extracting and combining cyber risk information

Inventors: George Y. Ng (San Mateo, CA); Frank Beier (San Carlos, CA); Olivier Giulieri (San Mateo, CA); Yoshifumi Yamamoto (Palo Alto, CA); Zheng Cheung (Fremont, CA)
Assignee: Guidewire Software, Inc.
H04L63/1433G06Q40/06H04L63/20H04L69/40
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Patent No.
US 11,146,585
App. No.
16/582,977
Granted
Oct 12, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity includes: assessing risk of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least publicly accessible Internet elements, and automatically recommending, based at least in part on the assessed risk, changes to reduce the assessed risk to mitigate the theoretical damage. The assessed risk comprises a cyber security failure risk in a computer network of the entity; and the assessing of risk comprises: generating a disaster scenario that comprises elements of a disaster event; modeling the disaster scenario against a profile of the entity; and determining theoretical damage based at least in part on the modeling.

Claims (55)

1. A method, comprising:

assessing risk of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least publicly accessible Internet elements, wherein:

the assessed risk comprises a cyber security failure risk in a computer network of the entity;

the cyber security failure risk including a risk associated with a cyber attack and/or a cyber breach of the computer network; and

the assessing of risk comprises:

generating a disaster scenario that comprises elements of a disaster event;

modeling the disaster scenario against a profile of the entity; and

determining theoretical damage based at least in part on the modeling; and

automatically recommending, based at least in part on the assessed risk that comprises the cyber security failure risk in the computer network of the entity, changes to reduce the assessed risk to mitigate the theoretical damage that is determined based at least in part on the modeling.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the changes include one or more of: an update to a cyber security policy, a setting to the cyber security policy, a network change, and/or a network setting.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the automatically recommended changes, and in response, automatically reassessing the risk of the entity; and

dynamically re-determining, based at least in part on the reassessed risk, an update, a setting, or both to a cyber security policy.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein outcome data of the modeling is incorporated into the reassessed the risk of the entity.

5. The method of claim 2 , further comprising generating recommended suggestions for the computer network relative to the disaster scenario and based at least in part on the collected information obtained for the computer network and the entity.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating optimized or improved disaster scenarios based at least in part on outcomes of disaster scenario modeling of a plurality of computer networks.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the cyber security failure comprises a cyber attack, a privacy incident involving sensitive information, or both.

8. The method of claim 2 , wherein the cyber security policy includes:

a cyber security policy from another entity;

a product warranty for first and/or third party costs that the entity purchases from at least one of a networking, security product, and services provider; or

both.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the computer agent is further configured to perform: collecting information from a computer network of the entity, analyzing information from the computer network of the entity, or both.

10. A system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

assess risk of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least publicly accessible Internet elements, wherein:

the assessed risk comprises a cyber security failure risk in a computer network of the entity;

the cyber security failure risk including a risk associated with a cyber attack and/or a cyber breach of the computer network; and

to assess the risk comprises to:

generate a disaster scenario that comprises elements of a disaster event;

model the disaster scenario against a profile of the entity; and

determine theoretical damage based at least in part on the modeling of the disaster scenario; and

automatically recommend, based at least in part on the assessed risk that comprises the cyber security failure risk in the computer network of the entity, changes to reduce the assessed risk to mitigate the theoretical damage that is determined based at least in part on the modeling; and

one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors, configured to provide the one or more processors with instructions.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the changes include one or more of: an update to a cyber security policy, a setting to the cyber security policy, a network change, and/or a network setting.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

determine that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the automatically recommended changes, and in response, automatically reassessing the risk of the entity; and

dynamically re-determine, based at least in part on the reassessed risk, an update, a setting, or both to a cyber security policy.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein outcome data of the modeling is incorporated into the reassessed the risk of the entity.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate recommended suggestions for the computer network relative to the disaster scenario and based at least in part on the collected information obtained for the computer network and the entity.

15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate optimized or improved disaster scenarios based at least in part on outcomes of disaster scenario modeling of a plurality of computer networks.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the cyber security failure comprises a cyber attack, a privacy incident involving sensitive information, or both.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the cyber security policy includes:

a cyber security policy from another entity;

a product warranty for first and/or third party costs that the entity purchases from at least one of a networking, security product, and services provider; or

both.

18. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computer agent is further configured to perform: collecting information from a computer network of the entity, analyzing information from the computer network of the entity, or both.

19. A computer program product embodied in a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

assessing risk of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least publicly accessible Internet elements, wherein:

the assessed risk comprises a cyber security failure risk in a computer network of the entity;

the cyber security failure risk including a risk associated with a cyber attack and/or a cyber breach of the computer network; and

the assessing of risk comprises:

generating a disaster scenario that comprises elements of a disaster event;

modeling the disaster scenario against a profile of the entity; and

determining theoretical damage based at least in part on the modeling; and

automatically recommending, based at least in part on the assessed risk that comprises the cyber security failure risk in the computer network of the entity, changes to reduce the assessed risk to mitigate the theoretical damage that is determined based at least in part on the modeling.

Assignments (1)
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 3, 2024
From: GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC.
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 069476/0488 →
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