Patents by Inventor Alen Puzic

Alen Puzic has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11888843
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first password to a private computer network; determining, with a credential-monitoring application within the private computer network, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria by: comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database within the private computer network; and determining whether the first password matches one or more passwords within the database; and in response to the determination that the first password satisfies the one or more criteria from among the plurality of criteria, causing a use of the first password to access the private computer network to be rejected and causing a first user associated with the first password to be notified to change the first password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 11750645
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: obtaining, with a domain controller of a private computer network, a set of user-authentication credentials comprising a first username and a first password; querying a distributed credential-monitoring application; receiving query results including one or more passwords associated with the first username; determining that at least some of the one or more passwords in the query results match the obtained first password; and in response to the determination, blocking, with the domain controller, access to a first user account on the private computer network associated with the obtained first username and first password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 11558409
    Abstract: Provided is a process that includes: obtaining with a distributed application comprising an identity management system, a first password; comparing with the distributed application, the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database external to the network-accessible resource; receiving one or more passwords that match the first password based on the comparison; determining with the distributed application whether the one or more passwords satisfy a criterion; and in response to the determination that the one or more passwords satisfy the criterion, causing the first user associated with a first account and the first password to be notified that the first password has been compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20220407849
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first password to a private computer network; determining, with a credential-monitoring application within the private computer network, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria by: comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database within the private computer network; and determining whether the first password matches one or more passwords within the database; and in response to the determination that the first password satisfies the one or more criteria from among the plurality of criteria, causing a use of the first password to access the private computer network to be rejected and causing a first user associated with the first password to be notified to change the first password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 11461458
    Abstract: Provided is a process that includes: obtaining, with one or more processors, a set of user-authentication credentials of a plurality of users; accessing, with one or more processors, a repository of breached credentials and determining, with one or more processors, an amount of the obtained set of user-authentication credentials in the repository of breached credentials, wherein the repository includes credentials from a plurality of entities obtained after the entities suffered a breach; and determining, with one or more processors, a score based on the amount of the set of user-authentication credentials in the repository of breached credentials, wherein the score is indicative of effectiveness of cybersecurity practices of the entity and the users associated with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 11438360
    Abstract: Provided is a process that includes: obtaining, with one or more processors, a query identifying a user identification; retrieving, with one or more processors, via an application programming interface, from a database, one or more passwords associated with one or more user identification entries in the database that matches the user identification in response to the obtained query; determining, with one or more processors, whether the one or more passwords matches a password associated with the user identification; blocking, with one or more processors, access to a user account associated with the user identification and the password when the one or more passwords matches the password associated with the user identification; and notifying, with one or more processors, a user associated with the user account to reset the password when the one or more passwords matches the password associated with the user identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Patent number: 11399021
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining a first password to a private computer network; determining, with a credential-monitoring application within the private computer network, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria by: comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within a database within the private computer network; and determining whether the first password matches one or more passwords within the database; and in response to the determination that the first password satisfies the one or more criteria from among the plurality of criteria, causing a use of the first password to access the private computer network to be rejected and causing a first user associated with the first password to be notified to change the first password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SpyCloud, Inc.
    Inventors: David Endler, Alen Puzic, Edward Ross
  • Publication number: 20150180878
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for unauthorized use classification. Unauthorized user classification can include assigning a user a number of life points, wherein the user is identified through an associated intemet protocol (P) address and associated browser header information. Unauthorized user classification can also include receiving a first request for a first set of data and a second request for a second set of data from the user. Unauthorized user classification can include adjusting the number of life points based an a relationship between the first request and the second request, wherein the relationship is a pattern including the first request and the second request that is used to determine whether the user is an automated user. Unauthorized user classification can include classifying the user as unauthorized when the number of life points fall below a point threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Alen Puzic, Jasiel R. Spelman, Jason L. Jones, Michael D. Dausin