US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on Nov. 3 for "Automated retraining of exploitability risk model based on penetration test results" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,223, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Automated retraining of exploitability risk model based on penetration test results" was invented by Wah-Kwan Lin (Melrose, Mass.), Leonardo Varela (Austin, Texas) and Cody Pierce (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to build a machine learned exploitability risk model that predicts, based on the characteristics of a set of machines, a normalized risk score quantifying the risk that the machines are exploitable by a set of attacks. To build the model, a training dataset is constructed by labeling characteristic data of a population ...