US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 25 for "Contextual vulnerability management" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,586, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Contextual vulnerability management" was invented by Ryan Nicholas Lait (Camp Hill, Australia) and Dean Victor Luxton (Redcliffe, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for providing a software-based platform for context-based vulnerability management of information technology (IT) environments. In some examples, a vulnerability management application collects vulnerability scan data, from potentially many different scanning agents, as well as vulnerability information from other third-party sources. The vulnerability managem...