System and Methods for Reducing an Organization's Cybersecurity Risk by Determining the Function and Seniority of Employees

Patent №

US 11,640,470

Granted

2023-05-02

Filed 2020

Owner

PROOFPOINT, INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16935993

Systems, methods, and apparatuses directed to implementations of an approach and techniques for more effectively preparing for, detecting, and responding to cybersecurity threats directed at people or at groups of people. Embodiments are directed to classifying or segmenting employees by “predicting” what are believed to be two attributes of an employee that contribute to making them at a higher risk of being a target of a cybersecurity attack. These attributes are the employee's seniority level (e.g., employee, contractor, manager, executive, board member) and the employee's primary function or role in an organization (e.g., HR, Legal, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D, etc.

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AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Planning0.99
Machine learning0.97
Knowledge representation0.91
Vision0.86
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

PROOFPOINT, INC.

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Assignors

AMAR, SHMUEL

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

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