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).
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Patent number: 12579259Abstract: 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 executiType: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 17, 2026Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
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Publication number: 20250240312Abstract: 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 iType: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Patent number: 12301594Abstract: 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 iType: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Publication number: 20240414198Abstract: 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 disType: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Elisabeth Weber, Peter Silberman, Shamus Field
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Publication number: 20240414194Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
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Patent number: 12107886Abstract: 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 disType: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Elisabeth Weber, Peter Silberman, Shamus Field
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Patent number: 12101348Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
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Publication number: 20240223582Abstract: 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 iType: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Patent number: 11936672Abstract: 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 iType: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Publication number: 20240028714Abstract: 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 cybersecuType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
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Publication number: 20240007489Abstract: 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 iType: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Patent number: 11809554Abstract: 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 cybersecuType: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
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Patent number: 11799887Abstract: 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 iType: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Publication number: 20230289438Abstract: 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 executiType: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
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Publication number: 20230247046Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
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Publication number: 20230224312Abstract: 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 iType: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Patrick Duffy, Kelsey Mitchell, Peter Silberman
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Patent number: 11693959Abstract: 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 executiType: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki
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Patent number: 11658999Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Expel, Inc.Inventors: Matt Peters, Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Elisabeth Weber, Jon Hencinski, John Begeman
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Publication number: 20230108834Abstract: 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 cybersecuType: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Peter Silberman, Jonathan Hencinski, Dan Whalen, Roger Studner
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Publication number: 20230086863Abstract: 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 executiType: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Peter Silberman, Dan Whalen, Matt Berninger, Paul Diebold, Ben Kawecki