US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on March 3 for "Risk factors for an organization network" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,108, issued on March 3, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Risk factors for an organization network" was invented by Bar Maor (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Hila Rachel Chen (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining risks associated with an identity in an organization network, including scanning an active directory for a network including a plurality of identities, to extract a plurality of attributes of the identities and their corresponding values. analyzing the extracted attribute values for an identity in the network to identify one or more risks associated with that identity, which an ...