US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on June 3 for "Policy exceptions for assessment of network system assets" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,466, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Policy exceptions for assessment of network system assets" was invented by Paul Miseiko (Mississauga, Canada) and Leonardo Varela (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticated asset assessment is provided. The method involves executing a scan assistant on an asset to allow a remote scan engine to execute one or more scan operations on the asset for determining a state of the asset. The scan assistant may verify the identity of the scan engine by checking that a certificate received from the scan engine is signed with a private key associated with ...