US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on July 8 for "Systems and methods for social network analysis on dark web forums to predict enterprise cyber incidents" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,804, issued on July 8, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for social network analysis on dark web forums to predict enterprise cyber incidents" was invented by Soumajyoti Sarkar (Tempe, Ariz.), Mohammed Almukaynizi (Chandler, Ariz.), Jana Shakarian (Chandler, Ariz.) and Paulo Shakarian (Chanlder, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting enterprise cyber incidents using social network analysis on the darkweb hacker forums are disclosed."

The patent was filed on Jan. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/150,577.

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