US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 10 for "Risk analysis apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,732, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Risk analysis apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Ryo Mizushima (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Yagyu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration information acquisition means acquires configuration information of a system to be analyzed. A threat analysis means analyzes a way of attack that can be implemented in the system to be analyzed. An attack route generation means generates an attack route from the start point to the end point of the attack. A risk value calculation means calculates a risk value of the generated attack route. A result outp...