US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for automated penetration testing" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,861, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automated penetration testing" was invented by Nicholas Valiensi (Mesa, Ariz.), Austin Engelmann (Mesa, Ariz.), Dave Dohrmann (Mesa, Ariz.), Jeremy Samiec (Phoenix) and Ryan Ang (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for analyzing computer systems and networks for potential vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks configured to (i) receive scan data from a scan of a target computer device; (ii) search for one or more vulnerabilities based on the scan data; (iii) determine at least one attack vector b...