Digital safety and account discovery

• US 9,906,541 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Jason D., Parkinson, John S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tolentino, Roderick
• Application Number:
  US15/331,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20180026996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 494 Days
• Field of Search: 726 22- 25
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1416 Event detection, e.g. attack signature detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis

Abstract

Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in keeping track of a consumer'"'"'s accounts in order to prevent unauthorized access or use of the consumer'"'"'s identified subscription and financial accounts. The discovered subscriptions and financial accounts may be displayed to the consumer along with recommendations and assistance for closing unused or unwanted financial accounts and subscriptions to prevent unauthorized access or use.

Claims

1. A cyber-security system comprising a cyber-security account analysis system and a cyber-security data processing system, wherein the cyber-security system includes:

a processor;

a memory unit storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the cyber-security data processing system to;

generate a consumer profile based on consumer information;

scan a consumer device to determine potential security threats;

associate the consumer device and results of the scan with the generated consumer profile;

wherein the cyber-security account analysis system is configured to;

monitor at least one email account;

determine source information for each email correspondence in the monitored at least one email account;

based on the determined source information for each email correspondence, generate a separate list of financial institutions associated with a consumer;

determine for each email correspondence a likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer;

based on the determined likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer, generate a list of subscriptions associated with the consumer; and

recommend closing accounts and subscriptions associated with the consumer based on security recommendations related to at least account inactivity, the accounts associated with the consumer determined based on at least one of the generated separate list of financial institutions associated with the consumer and the generated list of the subscriptions associated with the consumer.

2. The cyber-security system of claim 1, wherein cyber-security data processing system is further configured to:

generate a list of hardware elements and software applications discovered during the scan of the consumer device;

determine software application threats and hardware element vulnerabilities;

generate recommendations based on the determined software application threats and hardware element vulnerabilities; and

display recommendations to the consumer.

3. The cyber-security system of claim 1, wherein security recommendations comprise a number of consecutive days of account inactivity.

4. The cyber-security system of claim 1, wherein cyber-security account analysis system is further configured to:

display a hyperlink for each listed subscription to enable the consumer to close an account associated with each listed subscription upon hyperlink activation.

5. The cyber-security system of claim 1, wherein the cyber-security account analysis system is further configured to:

identify high risk subscriptions based on the security recommendations.

6. The cyber-security system of claim 1, wherein the cyber-security data processing system is further configured to:

determine a digital safety score based on the generated consumer profile, the generated separate list of financial institutions associated with the consumer, and the generated list of subscriptions associated with the consumer.

7. The cyber-security system of claim 6, wherein the cyber-security data processing system is further configured to:

receive additional consumer information;

update the generated consumer profile; and

update the determined digital safety score based on the updated consumer profile.

8. A method comprising:

monitoring at least one email account;

determining source information for each email correspondence in the monitored at least one email account;

based on the determined source information for each email correspondence, generating a separate list of financial institutions associated with a consumer;

determining for each email correspondence a likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer;

based on the determined likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer, generating a list of subscriptions associated with the consumer; and

recommending closing accounts associated with consumer based on security recommendations related to at least account inactivity, the accounts associated with the consumer determined based on at least one of the generated separate list of financial institutions associated with the consumer and the generated list of the subscriptions associated with the consumer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the security recommendations comprise a number of consecutive days of account inactivity.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying a hyperlink for each listed subscription to enable the consumer to close an account associated with each listed subscription upon hyperlink activation.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying high risk subscriptions based on the security recommendations.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining a digital safety score based on the generated separate list of financial institutions associated with the consumer, and the generated list of subscriptions associated with the consumer.

13. A cyber-security system comprising a cyber-security account analysis system, wherein the cyber-security system includes:

a processor;

a memory unit storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the cyber-security account analysis system to;

monitor at least one email account;

determine source information for each email correspondence in the monitored at least one email account;

based on the determined source information for each email correspondence, generate a separate list of financial institutions associated with a consumer;

determine for each email correspondence a likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer;

based on the determined likelihood that each email correspondence represents a subscription of the consumer, generate a list of subscriptions associated with the consumer;

recommend closing accounts and subscriptions associated with the consumer based on security recommendations related to at least account inactivity, the accounts associated with the consumer determined based on at least one of the generated separate list of financial institutions associated with the consumer and the generated list of the subscriptions associated with the consumer.

14. The cyber-security system of claim 13, wherein security recommendations comprise a number of consecutive days of account inactivity.

15. The cyber-security system of claim 13, wherein cyber-security account analysis system is further configured to:

display a hyperlink for each listed subscription to enable the consumer to close an account associated with each listed subscription upon hyperlink activation.

16. The cyber-security system of claim 13, wherein the cyber-security account analysis system is further configured to:

identify high risk subscriptions based on the security recommendations.

17. The cyber security system of claim 13, wherein the accounts recommended for closing are recommended based on identification of the sources of the subscriptions.

18. The cyber security system of claim 15, wherein the cyber-security account analysis system is further configured to:

receive a user indication of one or more accounts to be closed; and

initiate an account closing process for each of the one or more accounts indicated to be closed.