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Assessing security risks of users in a computing network

  • US 10,749,887 B2
  • Filed: 04/20/2017
  • Issued: 08/18/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for assessing security risk for an electronic device user in a computing network, the method comprising:

  • by a security system processor;

    generating an interaction item, wherein the interaction item comprises a training item or a security item;

    transmitting the interaction item to an end user electronic device via a network;

    receiving feedback data from the end user electronic device, wherein;

    the feedback data includes sensed data relating to an action of a user of the end user electronic device, wherein the action is responsive to the interaction item, andthe feedback data also includes technical information associated with the end user electronic device, wherein the technical information includes at least one of the following;

    a network address, a device make, a device model, a software version, an operating system version, firewall data or a platform type;

    comparing the feedback data to a plurality of security risk scoring metrics, where the plurality of security risk scoring metrics comprise;

    a set of metrics assigning a weight to the action of the user, anda set of metrics assigning a weight to a technical attribute defined for the technical information;

    based on the comparing, determining a security risk score, the security risk score quantifying a security risk presented to the computing network by the user of the end user electronic device;

    generating a subsequent interaction item based on the security risk score, wherein;

    the subsequent interaction item includes a security item or a training item, andthe subsequent interaction item includes a number of fields, each field having an associated value;

    assigning a weight to each field of the number of fields based on the field'"'"'s associated value; and

    determining a sophistication score for the subsequent interaction item by totaling the weights associated with each field of the number of fields.

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