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Systems and methods for cyber security risk assessment

  • US 9,930,062 B1
  • Filed: 06/26/2017
  • Issued: 03/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for evaluating cyber readiness of an organization, the method comprising:

  • presenting, by a computer, a plurality of objective questions to a user, wherein each of the objective questions has one or more predefined answers to be selected by said user;

    receiving, by said computer, answers to said plurality of objective questions from said user;

    correlating, by said computer, one or more of said objective questions to a plurality of elements of an organizational safeguard;

    determining based on said answers, by said computer, a risk rating for a threat origin of a cyber-attack;

    determining based on said answers, by said computer, a strength rating for said organizational safeguard against said threat origin, wherein said elements of said organizational safeguard collectively determine said strength rating of said organizational safeguard;

    comparing, by said computer, said risk rating of said threat origin to said strength rating of said organizational safeguard;

    determining based on said comparison, by said computer, a cyber readiness rating of said organizational safeguard from said cyber-attack by said threat origin; and

    presenting, by said computer, the cyber readiness rating of said organizational safeguard,wherein determining of said strength rating of said organizational safeguard comprises;

    determining, by said computer, a strength rating for a first element of said organizational safeguard based on at least one of said answers,determining, by said computer, a strength rating for a second element of said organizational safeguard based on at least one of said answers, anddetermining, by said computer, a strength rating for a third element of said organizational safeguard based on said strength rating of said first element and said strength rating of said second element.

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