US Patent Issued to KnowBe4 on Dec. 16 for "System and methods for minimizing organization risk from users associated with a password breach" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,209, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KnowBe4 Inc..

"System and methods for minimizing organization risk from users associated with a password breach" was invented by Greg Kras (Dunedin, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are disclosed for organizations to run a test against an active directory list to see if any user-provided passwords have been part of an existing data breach. Utilizing information from such a test identifies users that have weak passwords, reused passwords or shared passwords that have been associated with an earlier breach. With this information, the organization can seek to reduce risk by t...