US Patent Issued to NEC on May 27 for "Security risk analysis assistance device, method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,399, issued on May 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Security risk analysis assistance device, method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Ryo Mizushima (Tokyo), Hirofumi Ueda (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Yagyu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Attack path information includes information about an attack path including at least one attack step including an attack source, an attack destination, and an attack method. Vulnerability specification means refers to the attack path information and thereby specifies vulnerabilities exploitable by an attack on the attack destination in the attack step. In the vulnerability informat...