ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,859, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).
"Risk-based vulnerability management" was invented by Adrian Ungureanu (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for providing risk-based vulnerability management are described herein. A system is configured to access an attack graph, the attack graph including exploits represented as preconditions and postconditions; access vulnerability information of a plurality of nodes in the network, the vulnerability information including conditions of the plurality of nodes in the network; access a network connectivity graph that represents...