Patent US 11,539,720

Systems and methods are disclosed for computer network threat assessment. For example, methods may include receiving from client networks respective threat data and storing the respective threat data in a security event database; maintaining affiliations for groups of the client networks; detecting correlation between a network threat and one of the groups; identifying an indicator associated with the network threat, and, dependent on the affiliation for the group, identifying a client network and generating a message, which conveys an alert to the client network, comprising the indicator; responsive to the message, receiving, from the client network, a report of detected correlation between the indicator and security event data maintained by the client network; and updating the security event database responsive to the report of detected correlation.