US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for estimating vulnerability related to network blast radius of a network asset" (New York, Vermont, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,588, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for estimating vulnerability related to network blast radius of a network asset" was invented by Richard Toohey (Burlington, Vt.), Peter Bordow (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Chao Chen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving a network graph and selecting a first network node from the set of network nodes. The example method further includes computing a difficulty score based on the difficulty for an attacker to compromise a second network node in an instance in which the attacker compromises the first...