US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Dec. 16 for "Vulnerability detection at points of exposure" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,917, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Vulnerability detection at points of exposure" was invented by Wah-Kwan Lin (Melrose, Mass.) and Paul Deardorff (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying a vulnerability on a network are disclosed. The methods described herein may involve executing a first scanning function to obtain a first view of a network and then filtering the first view of the network for at least one point of exposure of a first entity that originates from a second entity. The methods described herein may further involve executing a secondary scanning functio...