US Patent Issued to SecurityScorecard on June 23 for "Non-intrusive techniques for discovering and using organizational relationships" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,501, issued on June 23, was assigned to SecurityScorecard Inc. (New York).

"Non-intrusive techniques for discovering and using organizational relationships" was invented by Nikon Rasumov (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides techniques for calculating an entity's cybersecurity risk based on identified relationships between the entity and one or more vendors. Customer/vendor relationships may impact the cybersecurity risk for each of the parties involved because a security compromise of a downstream or upstream provider can lead to a compromise of multiple other companies. For example, if organizatio...