US Patent Issued to SecurityScorecard on Feb. 18 for "Cybersecurity risk assessment on an industry basis" (New York, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,458, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SecurityScorecard Inc. (New York).

"Cybersecurity risk assessment on an industry basis" was invented by Aleksandr Yampolskiy (New York), Rob Blackin (New York), Alexander Heid (Hollywood, Fla.) and Samuel Kassoumeh (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining an entity's cybersecurity risk and benchmarking that risk includes non-intrusively collecting one or more types of data associated with an entity. Embodiments further include calculating a security score for at least one of the one or more types of data based, at least in part, on processing of security information extracted from t...