US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Aug. 25 for "Machined learned correlation of internal and external inventories of computing assets to identify vulnerabilities" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,908, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Machined learned correlation of internal and external inventories of computing assets to identify vulnerabilities" was invented by Paul Deardorff (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As an example, a server may determine a first set of assets using an internal scan engine, determine a second set of assets using an external scan engine, perform a proxy de-obfuscation process to determine a third set of assets, and combine them to create a set of combined assets that includes records of multiple hosts in an enterprise network. The server performs a correlation proc...