US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on May 6 for "Recommendation interface for remediation plans for cyberattack vulnerabilities" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,604, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Recommendation interface for remediation plans for cyberattack vulnerabilities" was invented by Wah-Kwan Lin (Melrose, Mass.), Leonardo Varela Guevara (Austin, Texas) and Cody Pierce (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to build a machine learned exploitability risk model that predicts, based on the characteristics of a set of machines, a normalized risk score quantifying the risk that the machines are exploitable by a set of attacks. To build the model, a training dataset is constructed by labeling characteristic data of a populati...