US Patent Issued to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY on June 10 for "System and method for managing the security health of a network device" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,333, issued on June 10, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"System and method for managing the security health of a network device" was invented by William M. Fitzgerald (Tipperary, Ireland), Miguel Morillo Iruela (Cork, Ireland), Silviu G. Sosiade (Cork, Ireland), Vincent P. Hamilton (Cork, Ireland) and Sean Phillips (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining and using a security risk score for devices includes searching a network to automatically identify devices associated with potential security risks, collecting a first set of data from the devices includi...