SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING OPTIMAL NETWORK ATTACK PATHS

Patent №

US 11,140,189

Granted

2021-10-05

Filed 2016

Owner

THE BOEING COMPANY

Lab

AI components

5

ml · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15043623

A computer-implemented method for discovering network attack paths is provided. The method includes a computer generating scoring system results based on analysis of vulnerabilities of nodes in a network configuration. The method also includes the computer applying Bayesian probability to the scoring system results and selected qualitative risk attributes wherein output accounts for dependencies between vulnerabilities of the nodes. The method also includes the computer applying a weighted-average algorithm to the output yielding at least one ranking of nodes in order of likelihood of targeting by an external attacker.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Planning0.99
Evolutionary computation0.87
Knowledge representation0.82
AI hardware0.59
Vision0.10
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE BOEING COMPANY

assignment · 567940232

Assignors

CHOI, JAI JOON, GRUBEL, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER, REID, DION STEPHEN DAVID

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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