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Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Qualys, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sumedh Thakar, San Jose, CA (US);

Bharat Patel, Belmont, CA (US);

Balaji Venkatesan, Foster City, CA (US);

Tristan Burch, Denver, CO (US);

Sean M. Molloy, Parker, CO (US);

Matthew L. Wirges, West Bend, WI (US);

Assignee:

Qualys, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1433 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein is a system and method for detecting vulnerability state deltas, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data related to a network connected device; determining a vulnerability state of the network connected device based upon the data; storing the vulnerability state in a vulnerability state database; receiving additional data related to the network connected device; determining an updated vulnerability state of the network connected device based upon the additional data; determining one or more deltas based upon differences between the vulnerability stare and the updated vulnerability state; and updating the stored vulnerability state with the updated vulnerability state.


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