US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Aug. 25 for "Management of effective access data differential update" (District Of Columbia, Missouri, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,568, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Management of effective access data differential update" was invented by Nadia Mounzih (Washington), Joseph Buell (St. Louis) and Val Komarov (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access policy analysis system is disclosed, configured to analyze access policies defined in a computer network to generate effective access data (EAD) for individual pairs of principals and resources in the network, and performing a differential update process to selectively refresh portions of the EAD that are affected by later changes of the access policies. In embodiments, the upda...