US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Prioritizing vulnerability based on application security context" (California, Texas, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,939, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prioritizing vulnerability based on application security context" was invented by Ashutosh Kulshreshtha (Cupertino, Calif.), Walter T. Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), Dhruv Hitesh Raithatha (San Francisco) and Randall Edgar Birdsall (Laurel, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method includes determining a plurality of business transactions for a plurality of services provided by an application. The method further includes calculating a vulnerability score for each determined business transaction. Each vulnerability score ...