ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,803, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CITALID CYBERSECURITE (Paris).

"Method for analyzing the vulnerability of an information system to a cyber attack" was invented by Maxime Cartan (Levallois-Perret, France), Olivier Hamon (Clichy, France) and Nicolas Le Breton (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for analyzing the vulnerability of an information system to a cyber attack, the attack propagating from a starting computer asset on a compromise path consisting of a succession of computer assets, the method comprising: carrying out simulations of the propagation of the attack, in which each simulation ...