US Patent Issued to Qualys on Sept. 9 for "System and method of discovering external attack surface based on identification data" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,613, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Qualys Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"System and method of discovering external attack surface based on identification data" was invented by Kunal Modasiya (Santa Clara, Calif.), Siddharth Bhatia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Milind Kapre (Pune, India) and Pablo M. Quiroga (Saint Helena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for discovering one or more computing assets associated with primary identification data. The systems and methods comprise a series of processes and steps to discover an organization's external attack surface. The processes and steps include buildi...