US Patent Issued to MORPHISEC INFORMATION SECURITY 2014 on Feb. 24 for "Continuous vulnerability assessment system" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,447, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MORPHISEC INFORMATION SECURITY 2014 LTD. (Beer Sheva, Israel).

"Continuous vulnerability assessment system" was invented by Michael Gorelik (Alpine, N.J.) and Dorel Yaffe (Kiryat Gat, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a continuous vulnerability assessment system for detecting exploitable vulnerabilities. For example, an agent executes on a plurality of computing devices. Each agent profiles various pieces of software executing on its respective device and obtains various characteristics thereof. For instance, each agent determines, among othe...