US Patent Issued to BitSight Technologies on July 8 for "Systems and methods for accelerating cybersecurity assessments" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,563, issued on July 8, was assigned to BitSight Technologies Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for accelerating cybersecurity assessments" was invented by Christopher Poulin (Walpole, Mass.), Shyam Venugopal (Boston), Vanessa Jankowski (Watkins Glen, N.Y.), Kevin Amorin (Acton, Mass.), Hanan Bumpus (North Grafton, Mass.) and Zhichun Ye (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of selecting a cybersecurity action plan; sending one or more questions; receiving a response to each of the one or more questions; for each question mapped to at least one risk vector rating: determining a risk score ba...