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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2023
Applicant:

Lacework, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Imani N. Palmer, Frederick, MD (US);

Nicholas W. Mcnutt, Kodak, TN (US);

Alessandro Panella, San Leandro, CA (US);

Dan Wei, Fremont, CA (US);

Jacob A. Kilby, San Francisco, CA (US);

Anil K. Nanduri, San Jose, CA (US);

Ammar G. Ekbote, Renton, WA (US);

Prashant Billore, San Jose, CA (US);

Nolan K. Karpinski, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sowmya A. Karmali, Tustin, CA (US);

Yijou Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 43/045 (2022.01); H04L 43/06 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1425 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); H04L 43/045 (2013.01); H04L 43/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); G06F 16/2456 (2019.01);
Abstract

An illustrative method includes identifying, based on a scan of a compute environment associated with an entity, a plurality of attack paths from one or more networks to one or more datasets associated with the entity, determining individual risk scores for each attack path indicating a level that each attack path could be exploited to access the one or more datasets, and determining, based on the individual risk scores, an absolute risk score for the entity indicating a status of a security posture for the entity. A risk mitigation operation associated with the entity is performed based on the absolute risk score.


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