US Patent Issued to Acronis International on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods of using business impact analysis data to assess the risk of security mitigation steps" (Singaporean, Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,141, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods of using business impact analysis data to assess the risk of security mitigation steps" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Philipp Gysel (Bern, Switzerland), Irina Lukasheva (Milan), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the protection of information systems utilize business impact analysis (BIA) data to assess the risk of security mitigation operations. A detected security incident is enriched using BIA data....