Patents by Inventor Ann Irvine

Ann Irvine 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).

  • Publication number: 20240380777
    Abstract: Determining additional signals for determining cybersecurity risk is disclosed, including: obtaining signals associated with a cybersecurity risk, wherein the obtained signals include technographic signals and query derived signals obtained from queries; combining the technographic signals and the query derived signals into a Bayesian model indicating the cybersecurity risk; and determining additional technographic signals or additional query derived signals associated with the cybersecurity risk to obtain such that the additional technographic signals or the additional query derived signals are to be computed to impact the cybersecurity risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ann Irvine, Robert Mealey, Russell Snyder
  • Patent number: 12095798
    Abstract: Determining additional signals for determining cybersecurity risk is disclosed, including: obtaining signals associated with a cybersecurity risk, wherein the obtained signals include technographic signals and query derived signals obtained from queries; combining the technographic signals and the query derived signals into a Bayesian model indicating the cybersecurity risk; and determining additional technographic signals or additional query derived signals associated with the cybersecurity risk to obtain such that the additional technographic signals or the additional query derived signals are to be computed to impact the cybersecurity risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Arceo Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Ann Irvine, Robert Mealey, Russell Snyder
  • Patent number: 11956254
    Abstract: Generating a cybersecurity risk model using sparse data is disclosed, including: obtaining signals associated with a cybersecurity risk, wherein the obtained signals include technographic signals and query derived signals obtained from queries; generating pseudo signals based at least in part on a priori factors relating to the cybersecurity risk; and combining the pseudo signals and the obtained signals into a Bayesian model indicating the cybersecurity risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Arceo Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Ann Irvine, Robert Mealey, Russell Snyder
  • Patent number: 11811799
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for constructing a distribution of interrelated event features. The constructing a distribution of interrelated event features includes receiving a stream of events, the stream of events comprising a plurality of events; extracting features from the plurality of events; constructing a distribution of the features from the plurality of events; and, analyzing the distribution of the features from the plurality of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Luiggi, Christopher Poirel, Ann Irvine
  • Patent number: 11704437
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Forcepoint Federal Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Patent number: 11411973
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying security risks to a computer system based on a distribution of categorical features of events. Certain embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a stream of events, the stream of events including a plurality of events; extracting a categorical feature from the plurality of events, where the categorical feature includes a set of categorical feature members, where the set of categorical feature members are generated on the fly from string values included in the extracted categorical feature; constructing a distribution for the categorical feature based on categorical feature members extracted from the plurality of events; and, analyzing the distribution of the categorical feature to identify one or more security risk factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Luiggi, Christopher Poirel, Ann Irvine
  • Publication number: 20220245280
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Patent number: 11314896
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Patent number: 11250158
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating session-based security information. Generating the session-based security information includes the steps of monitoring user behavior between an enactor and an entity; detecting user behavior data associated with the user behavior; generating a session using the user behavior data, the session relating to an entity discrete interaction of the enactor; and, associating the session and the session-based security information with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Russell Snyder, Adam Reeve
  • Patent number: 11244070
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively remediating multivariate risk, comprising: detecting a violation of a multivariate security policy, the multivariate security policy comprising a plurality of variables; identifying a variable from the plurality of variables associated with a cause of the violation; associating an entity with the variable associated with the cause of the violation; and, adaptively remediating a risk associated with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve
  • Patent number: 11171980
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for protecting against contagion-based risk events are disclosed for monitoring behavior of users to construct a contagion network relationship map of connection and influence relationships between different users and then analyzing a received stream of events from the users to identify a critical event performed by a first user having a first risk score so that one or more propagated risk scores can be generated from the first risk score for at least a first connected user based on connection and influence relationships between the first user and the first connected user that are extracted from the contagion network relationship so that an adaptive response may be automatically generated to protect and control against actions by at least the first connected user based on the one or more propagated risk scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
    Inventors: David Coffey, Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Kristin Machacek Leary
  • Patent number: 11132461
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for revising a security policy. Revising the security policy includes detecting an event associated with an entity; providing information relating to the event to a security policy; determining whether the security policy is violated by the event; generating a response when the security policy is violated by the event; and, remediating the security policy to reduce false positive responses generated by the security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon L. Swafford, Ann Irvine, Jordan A. Dominguez
  • Patent number: 10803178
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing security analytics comprising receiving a stream of data from a data source; preprocessing the stream of data identify entity information and event information from the stream of data; transforming the entity information into transformed entity data and the event information into transformed event data; the transforming conforming to a genericized data model; storing the transformed entity data and the transformed event data in a security analytics data repository; and, performing a security analytics operation on the transformed entity data and the transformed event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
    Inventors: Chris Poirel, Ann Irvine, Russell Snyder, Chris Puderbaugh
  • Publication number: 20200285769
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Patent number: 10769283
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing security analytics comprising receiving a stream of data from a data source; preprocessing the stream of data identify entity information and event information from the stream of data; transforming the entity information into transformed entity data and the event information into transformed event data; the transforming conforming to a genericized data model; storing the transformed entity data and the transformed event data in a security analytics data repository; and, performing a security analytics operation on the transformed entity data and the transformed event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Poirel, Ann Irvine, Russell Snyder, Chris Puderbaugh
  • Publication number: 20200257823
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively remediating multivariate risk, comprising: detecting a violation of a multivariate security policy, the multivariate security policy comprising a plurality of variables; identifying a variable from the plurality of variables associated with a cause of the violation; associating an entity with the variable associated with the cause of the violation; and, adaptively remediating a risk associated with the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve
  • Publication number: 20200257822
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating session-based security information. Generating the session-based security information includes the steps of monitoring user behavior between an enactor and an entity; detecting user behavior data associated with the user behavior; generating a session using the user behavior data, the session relating to an entity discrete interaction of the enactor; and, associating the session and the session-based security information with the user profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Russell Snyder, Adam Reeve
  • Patent number: 10664614
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for adaptively assessing risk associated with an endpoint, comprising: determining a risk level corresponding to an entity associated with an endpoint; selecting a frequency and a duration of an endpoint monitoring interval; collecting user behavior to collect user behavior associated with the entity for the duration of the endpoint monitoring interval via the endpoint; processing the user behavior to generate a current risk score for the entity; comparing the current risk score of the user to historical risk scores to determine whether a risk score of a user has changed; and changing the risk score of the user to the current risk score when the risk score of the user has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Adam Reeve, Russell Snyder, Benjamin Shih
  • Publication number: 20200145447
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for protecting against contagion-based risk events are disclosed for monitoring behavior of users to construct a contagion network relationship map of connection and influence relationships between different users and then analyzing a received stream of events from the users to identify a critical event performed by a first user having a first risk score so that one or more propagated risk scores can be generated from the first risk score for at least a first connected user based on connection and influence relationships between the first user and the first connected user that are extracted from the contagion network relationship so that an adaptive response may be automatically generated to protect and control against actions by at least the first connected user based on the one or more propagated risk scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: David Coffey, Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Kristin Machacek Leary
  • Patent number: 10642998
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating session-based security information. Generating the session-based security information includes the steps of monitoring user behavior between an enactor and an entity; detecting user behavior data associated with the user behavior; generating a session using the user behavior data, the session relating to an entity discrete interaction of the enactor; and, associating the session and the session-based security information with the user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Forcepoint LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Ford, Ann Irvine, Russell Snyder, Adam Reeve