ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,001, issued on July 14, was assigned to Zafran Security LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for mitigating cyber threats using risk analysis" was invented by Ben Seri (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Snir Havdala (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for mitigating cyber-threats. A method includes analyzing data in-memory for at least one software component during execution of each of the at least one software component; generating a base risk score based on the analysis of the data in-memory; analyzing a configuration of each of at least one security control with respect to the at least one software comp...