US Patent Issued to Spirion on June 3 for "Cybersecurity risk assessment system and method" (Florida, Colorado, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,462, issued on June 3, was assigned to Spirion LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Cybersecurity risk assessment system and method" was invented by Kevin T. Coppins (Lutz, Fla.), Liam Irish (Temple Terrace, Fla.), Spencer Vore (Broomfield, Colo.) and Cory Retherford (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating and improving data security are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving results from a sensitive data scan of information technology (IT) infrastructure of an organization, in which the result includes indications of a volume of sensitive data found during the scan, types of the sensitive data fou...