Patents by Inventor Allison J. Ashford

Allison J. Ashford 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: 11909758
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a cyber risk assessment service. A computing device determines weights for techniques of a cyber security framework based on historical industry impact. The computing device associates an enterprise network with an industry identifier, obtains customer risk data for the enterprise network, and normalizes and/or combines the customer risk data to form normalized risk scores. The computing device maps the customer risk data to corresponding techniques in the cyber security framework, generates technique scores based on the mapping and the normalized risk scores, and generates weighted technique scores using some of the weights selected based on the industry identifier. The computing device calculates an overall security score for the enterprise network based on the weighted technique scores, identifies a corrective recommendation for the overall security score, and provides the overall security score and the corrective recommendation for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lori K. Bogren, Katrina Marie Kutchko, Allison J. Ashford, Charles A. Dallas, Yonatan Fridman
  • Patent number: 11647038
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a cyber risk assessment service. A computing device determines weights for techniques of a cyber security framework based on historical industry impact. The computing device associates an enterprise network with an industry identifier, obtains customer risk data for the enterprise network, and normalizes and/or combines the customer risk data to form normalized risk scores. The computing device maps the customer risk data to corresponding techniques in the cyber security framework, generates technique scores based on the mapping and the normalized risk scores, and generates weighted technique scores using some of the weights selected based on the industry identifier. The computing device calculates an overall security score for the enterprise network based on the weighted technique scores, identifies a corrective recommendation for the overall security score, and provides the overall security score and the corrective recommendation for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lori K. Bogren, Katrina Marie Kutchko, Allison J. Ashford, Charles A. Dallas, Yonatan Fridman
  • Publication number: 20220232031
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a cyber risk assessment service. A computing device determines weights for techniques of a cyber security framework based on historical industry impact. The computing device associates an enterprise network with an industry identifier, obtains customer risk data for the enterprise network, and normalizes and/or combines the customer risk data to form normalized risk scores. The computing device maps the customer risk data to corresponding techniques in the cyber security framework, generates technique scores based on the mapping and the normalized risk scores, and generates weighted technique scores using some of the weights selected based on the industry identifier. The computing device calculates an overall security score for the enterprise network based on the weighted technique scores, identifies a corrective recommendation for the overall security score, and provides the overall security score and the corrective recommendation for presentation to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Lori K. Bogren, Katrina Marie Kutchko, Allison J. Ashford, Charles A. Dallas, Yonatan Fridman