Patents by Inventor Peter Silberman

Peter Silberman 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).

  • Systems and methods for intelligently generating cybersecurity contextual intelligence and generating a cybersecurity intelligence interface
    Patent number: 11936672
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting one or more cybersecurity microservices to accelerate cybersecurity threat mitigation includes constructing a subscriber-specific data corpus comprising a plurality of distinct pieces of computing environment-informative data of a target subscriber; adapting a subscriber-agnostic microservice of the cybersecurity service to a subscriber-specific microservice, wherein: the subscriber-agnostic microservice includes a plurality of subscriber-agnostic cybersecurity event handling instructions, and adapting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to the subscriber-specific microservice includes generating a plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; augmenting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to include the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; computing for a target cybersecurity event a subscriber-specific threat severity level based on one or more of the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND INTELLIGENT VERIFICATION-INFORMED HANDLING OF CYBER SECURITY EVENTS THROUGH AUTOMATED VERIFICATION WORKFLOWS
    Publication number: 20240028714
    Abstract: A system and method for automated verification of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event of a subscriber; automatically constructing a response-enabled verification communication based on one or more features of the cybersecurity event satisfying verification-initiating criteria of an automated verification-initiation workflow, and transmitting the response-enabled verification communication to the subscriber associated with the cybersecurity event, wherein the response-enabled verification communication includes: one or more pieces of event-descriptive content; a first selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically increases a threat severity level of the cybersecurity event; and a second selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically de-escalates the threat severity level of the cybersecurity event causing a disposal of the cybersecurity event; and automatically routing the cybersecurity event to one of a cybersecu
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING CYBERSECURITY CONTEXTUAL INTELLIGENCE AND GENERATING A CYBERSECURITY INTELLIGENCE INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20240007489
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting one or more cybersecurity microservices to accelerate cybersecurity threat mitigation includes constructing a subscriber-specific data corpus comprising a plurality of distinct pieces of computing environment-informative data of a target subscriber; adapting a subscriber-agnostic microservice of the cybersecurity service to a subscriber-specific microservice, wherein: the subscriber-agnostic microservice includes a plurality of subscriber-agnostic cybersecurity event handling instructions, and adapting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to the subscriber-specific microservice includes generating a plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; augmenting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to include the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; computing for a target cybersecurity event a subscriber-specific threat severity level based on one or more of the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling i
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
  • Systems and methods for intelligent cyber security threat detection and intelligent verification-informed handling of cyber security events through automated verification workflows
    Patent number: 11809554
    Abstract: A system and method for automated verification of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event of a subscriber; automatically constructing a response-enabled verification communication based on one or more features of the cybersecurity event satisfying verification-initiating criteria of an automated verification-initiation workflow, and transmitting the response-enabled verification communication to the subscriber associated with the cybersecurity event, wherein the response-enabled verification communication includes: one or more pieces of event-descriptive content; a first selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically increases a threat severity level of the cybersecurity event; and a second selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically de-escalates the threat severity level of the cybersecurity event causing a disposal of the cybersecurity event; and automatically routing the cybersecurity event to one of a cybersecu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
  • Systems and methods for intelligently generating cybersecurity contextual intelligence and generating a cybersecurity intelligence interface
    Patent number: 11799887
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting one or more cybersecurity microservices to accelerate cybersecurity threat mitigation includes constructing a subscriber-specific data corpus comprising a plurality of distinct pieces of computing environment-informative data of a target subscriber; adapting a subscriber-agnostic microservice of the cybersecurity service to a subscriber-specific microservice, wherein: the subscriber-agnostic microservice includes a plurality of subscriber-agnostic cybersecurity event handling instructions, and adapting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to the subscriber-specific microservice includes generating a plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; augmenting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to include the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; computing for a target cybersecurity event a subscriber-specific threat severity level based on one or more of the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBERSECURITY ALERT SIMILARITY DETECTION AND CYBERSECURITY ALERT HANDLING
    Publication number: 20230289438
    Abstract: A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing a cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event based on the cybersecurity event digest; searching, based on the distinct cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event, an n-dimensional space comprising a plurality of historical cybersecurity event hashing-based signatures; returning one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event based on the search; deriving one or more cybersecurity event-specific handling actions for the cybersecurity event based on identifying a threat handling action corresponding to each of the one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event; and executi
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION THROUGH AN EXTENSIBLE AUTOMATED INVESTIGATIONS AND THREAT MITIGATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20230247046
    Abstract: A cybersecurity system and method for handling a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity alert; selectively initializing automated threat intelligence workflows based on computing a cybersecurity alert type, wherein the automated threat intelligence workflows include a plurality of automated investigative tasks that, when executed by one or more computers, derive cybersecurity alert intelligence data; and executing the plurality of automated investigative tasks includes automatically sourcing a corpus of investigative data; deriving the cybersecurity alert intelligence data based on extracting selective pieces of data from the corpus of investigative data, wherein the cybersecurity alert intelligence data informs an inference of a cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert; and automatically routing the cybersecurity alert to one of a plurality of distinct threat mitigation or threat disposal routes based on the cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENTLY GENERATING CYBERSECURITY CONTEXTUAL INTELLIGENCE AND GENERATING A CYBERSECURITY INTELLIGENCE INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20230224312
    Abstract: A system and method for adapting one or more cybersecurity microservices to accelerate cybersecurity threat mitigation includes constructing a subscriber-specific data corpus comprising a plurality of distinct pieces of computing environment-informative data of a target subscriber; adapting a subscriber-agnostic microservice of the cybersecurity service to a subscriber-specific microservice, wherein: the subscriber-agnostic microservice includes a plurality of subscriber-agnostic cybersecurity event handling instructions, and adapting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to the subscriber-specific microservice includes generating a plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; augmenting the subscriber-agnostic microservice to include the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling instructions; computing for a target cybersecurity event a subscriber-specific threat severity level based on one or more of the plurality of context-informed cybersecurity event handling i
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
  • Systems and methods for intelligent cybersecurity alert similarity detection and cybersecurity alert handling
    Patent number: 11693959
    Abstract: A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing a cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event based on the cybersecurity event digest; searching, based on the distinct cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event, an n-dimensional space comprising a plurality of historical cybersecurity event hashing-based signatures; returning one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event based on the search; deriving one or more cybersecurity event-specific handling actions for the cybersecurity event based on identifying a threat handling action corresponding to each of the one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event; and executi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
  • Systems and methods for intelligent cyber security threat detection and mitigation through an extensible automated investigations and threat mitigation platform
    Patent number: 11658999
    Abstract: A cybersecurity system and method for handling a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity alert; selectively initializing automated threat intelligence workflows based on computing a cybersecurity alert type, wherein the automated threat intelligence workflows include a plurality of automated investigative tasks that, when executed by one or more computers, derive cybersecurity alert intelligence data; and executing the plurality of automated investigative tasks includes automatically sourcing a corpus of investigative data; deriving the cybersecurity alert intelligence data based on extracting selective pieces of data from the corpus of investigative data, wherein the cybersecurity alert intelligence data informs an inference of a cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert; and automatically routing the cybersecurity alert to one of a plurality of distinct threat mitigation or threat disposal routes based on the cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND INTELLIGENT VERIFICATION-INFORMED HANDLING OF CYBER SECURITY EVENTS THROUGH AUTOMATED VERIFICATION WORKFLOWS
    Publication number: 20230108834
    Abstract: A system and method for automated verification of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event of a subscriber; automatically constructing a response-enabled verification communication based on one or more features of the cybersecurity event satisfying verification-initiating criteria of an automated verification-initiation workflow, and transmitting the response-enabled verification communication to the subscriber associated with the cybersecurity event, wherein the response-enabled verification communication includes: one or more pieces of event-descriptive content; a first selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically increases a threat severity level of the cybersecurity event; and a second selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically de-escalates the threat severity level of the cybersecurity event causing a disposal of the cybersecurity event; and automatically routing the cybersecurity event to one of a cybersecu
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBERSECURITY ALERT SIMILARITY DETECTION AND CYBERSECURITY ALERT HANDLING
    Publication number: 20230086863
    Abstract: A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing a cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event based on the cybersecurity event digest; searching, based on the distinct cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event, an n-dimensional space comprising a plurality of historical cybersecurity event hashing-based signatures; returning one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event based on the search; deriving one or more cybersecurity event-specific handling actions for the cybersecurity event based on identifying a threat handling action corresponding to each of the one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event; and executi
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT PHISHING THREAT DETECTION AND PHISHING THREAT REMEDIATION IN A CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20230038671
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating a cybersecurity event detection and remediation includes extracting corpora of feature data from a suspicious electronic communication, wherein the corpora of feature data comprise at least one corpus of text data extracted from a body of the suspicious electronic communication; computing at least one text embedding value for the suspicious electronic communication; evaluating the text embedding values of the corpus of text data against an n-dimensional mapping of adverse electronic communication vectors, the n-dimensional mapping comprising a plurality of historical electronic communication vectors derived for a plurality of historical electronic communications; identifying whether the suspicious electronic communication comprises one of an adverse electronic communication based on the evaluation of the text embedding value, and accelerating a cybersecurity event detection by routing data associated with the suspicious electronic communication to one of a plurality of dis
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Elisabeth Weber, Peter Silberman, Shamus Field
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBERSECURITY ALERT SIMILARITY DETECTION AND CYBERSECURITY ALERT HANDLING
    Publication number: 20230018808
    Abstract: A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing a cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event based on the cybersecurity event digest; searching, based on the distinct cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event, an n-dimensional space comprising a plurality of historical cybersecurity event hashing-based signatures; returning one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event based on the search; deriving one or more cybersecurity event-specific handling actions for the cybersecurity event based on identifying a threat handling action corresponding to each of the one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event; and executi
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
  • Systems and methods for intelligent cybersecurity alert similarity detection and cybersecurity alert handling
    Patent number: 11556638
    Abstract: A system and method for generating event-specific handling instructions for accelerating a threat mitigation of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event; generating a cybersecurity event digest based on the cybersecurity event, computing a cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event based on the cybersecurity event digest; searching, based on the distinct cybersecurity hashing-based signature of the cybersecurity event, an n-dimensional space comprising a plurality of historical cybersecurity event hashing-based signatures; returning one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event based on the search; deriving one or more cybersecurity event-specific handling actions for the cybersecurity event based on identifying a threat handling action corresponding to each of the one or more historical cybersecurity events or historical cybersecurity alerts homogeneous to the cybersecurity event; and executi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
  • Systems and methods for intelligent cyber security threat detection and intelligent verification-informed handling of cyber security events through automated verification workflows
    Patent number: 11550907
    Abstract: A system and method for automated verification of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event of a subscriber; automatically constructing a response-enabled verification communication based on one or more features of the cybersecurity event satisfying verification-initiating criteria of an automated verification-initiation workflow, and transmitting the response-enabled verification communication to the subscriber associated with the cybersecurity event, wherein the response-enabled verification communication includes: one or more pieces of event-descriptive content; a first selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically increases a threat severity level of the cybersecurity event; and a second selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically de-escalates the threat severity level of the cybersecurity event causing a disposal of the cybersecurity event; and automatically routing the cybersecurity event to one of a cybersecu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
  • Systems and methods for intelligent phishing threat detection and phishing threat remediation in a cyber security threat detection and mitigation platform
    Patent number: 11509689
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating a cybersecurity event detection and remediation includes extracting corpora of feature data from a suspicious electronic communication, wherein the corpora of feature data comprise at least one corpus of text data extracted from a body of the suspicious electronic communication; computing at least one text embedding value for the suspicious electronic communication; evaluating the text embedding values of the corpus of text data against an n-dimensional mapping of adverse electronic communication vectors, the n-dimensional mapping comprising a plurality of historical electronic communication vectors derived for a plurality of historical electronic communications; identifying whether the suspicious electronic communication comprises one of an adverse electronic communication based on the evaluation of the text embedding value, and accelerating a cybersecurity event detection by routing data associated with the suspicious electronic communication to one of a plurality of dis
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Expel, Inc.
    Inventors: Elisabeth Weber, Peter Silberman, Shamus Field
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION THROUGH AN EXTENSIBLE AUTOMATED INVESTIGATIONS AND THREAT MITIGATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20220337621
    Abstract: A cybersecurity system and method for handling a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity alert; selectively initializing automated threat intelligence workflows based on computing a cybersecurity alert type, wherein the automated threat intelligence workflows include a plurality of automated investigative tasks that, when executed by one or more computers, derive cybersecurity alert intelligence data; and executing the plurality of automated investigative tasks includes automatically sourcing a corpus of investigative data; deriving the cybersecurity alert intelligence data based on extracting selective pieces of data from the corpus of investigative data, wherein the cybersecurity alert intelligence data informs an inference of a cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert; and automatically routing the cybersecurity alert to one of a plurality of distinct threat mitigation or threat disposal routes based on the cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND INTELLIGENT VERIFICATION-INFORMED HANDLING OF CYBER SECURITY EVENTS THROUGH AUTOMATED VERIFICATION WORKFLOWS
    Publication number: 20220292189
    Abstract: A system and method for automated verification of a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity event of a subscriber; automatically constructing a response-enabled verification communication based on one or more features of the cybersecurity event satisfying verification-initiating criteria of an automated verification-initiation workflow, and transmitting the response-enabled verification communication to the subscriber associated with the cybersecurity event, wherein the response-enabled verification communication includes: one or more pieces of event-descriptive content; a first selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically increases a threat severity level of the cybersecurity event; and a second selectable interface object that, when selected by the subscriber, automatically de-escalates the threat severity level of the cybersecurity event causing a disposal of the cybersecurity event; and automatically routing the cybersecurity event to one of a cybersecu
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT PHISHING THREAT DETECTION AND PHISHING THREAT REMEDIATION IN A CYBER SECURITY THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20220210190
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating a cybersecurity event detection and remediation includes extracting corpora of feature data from a suspicious electronic communication, wherein the corpora of feature data comprise at least one corpus of text data extracted from a body of the suspicious electronic communication; computing at least one text embedding value for the suspicious electronic communication; evaluating the text embedding values of the corpus of text data against an n-dimensional mapping of adverse electronic communication vectors, the n-dimensional mapping comprising a plurality of historical electronic communication vectors derived for a plurality of historical electronic communications; identifying whether the suspicious electronic communication comprises one of an adverse electronic communication based on the evaluation of the text embedding value, and accelerating a cybersecurity event detection by routing data associated with the suspicious electronic communication to one of a plurality of dis
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Elisabeth Weber, Peter Silberman, Shamus Field