Patents Assigned to Wombat Security Technology, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9398029
    Abstract: A cybersecurity training system uses lures and training actions to help train a user of an electronic device to recognize and act appropriately in situations that could compromise security. The system includes an administrator interface by which an administrator may customize a lure and/or a training action with branded content. When used in a lure, this enables the lure to appear to the user as if it were a legitimate, non-threatening action from the brand. If the user falls for the lure, the system may provide the user with cybersecurity training, which may automatically include content that is tailored for the selected brand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Joseph A. Ferrara
  • Patent number: 9373267
    Abstract: A context-aware training system senses a user action that may expose the user to a threat, such as a cybersecurity threat. The system selects a training action from a collection of available training actions and causes the training action to be delivered to the user or a group of users. The system includes an administrator interface that enables an administrator to select, customize and/or assign constraints to the training action that will be delivered to the user(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Jason Brubaker, Jason Hong
  • Patent number: 9280911
    Abstract: A context-aware training system senses sensing a user action that may expose the user's computer to a cybersecurity threat. The system selects training action from a collection of available training actions and causes the training action to be selected to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Jason Brubaker, Jason Hong
  • Publication number: 20140199664
    Abstract: A training system senses a user action that may expose the user to a threat, such as a cybersecurity threat. The user action may be in response to a mock attack delivered via a messaging service, a wireless communication service, a fake malware application or another device, service, system or mechanism. The system selects a training action from a collection of available training actions and causes the training action to be delivered to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Jason Brubaker, Jason Hong
  • Publication number: 20140199663
    Abstract: A context-aware training system senses a user action that may expose the user to a threat, such as a cybersecurity threat. The system selects a training action from a collection of available training actions and causes the training action to be delivered to the user or a group of users. The system includes an administrator interface that enables an administrator to select, customize and/or assign constraints to the training action that will be delivered to the user(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Wombat Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Kurt Wescoe, Jason Brubaker, Jason Hong
  • Patent number: 8423483
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method for updating a policy that is enforced by a computer program. In one embodiment, a computer communicates, to a user, data regarding one or more decisions made by the program over a period of time according to a policy. Each decision is made on the particular policy in force at the time the decision is made. Policy data for the policy is stored in a machine readable format. The user feedback data indicative of feedback by the user regarding the one or more decisions is stored. The computer identifies and ranks one or more potential variations to the policy based on a score of an objective function for each potential variation. The computer communicates, to the user, one or more suggested modifications based on the ranking of the one or more potential variations to the policy. The computer modifies the policy data based on one or more selections by the user in response to the transmission of the one or more suggested modifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Carnegie Mellon University, Wombat Security Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, Paul Hankes Drielsma, Lorrie Faith Candor, Patrick Kelley