Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (20240430288). NETWORK TAILORED VULNERABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

NETWORK TAILORED VULNERABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Organization Name

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Ali Parandehgheibi of Menlo Park CA (US)

Gaurav Sharma of Mountain View CA (US)

Alina Asish Rath of San Francisco CA (US)

Christopher Nicholas Ganas of Glen Allen CA (US)

Anupam Bharali of San Jose CA (US)

Suresh Venkataraman of Tracy CA (US)

NETWORK TAILORED VULNERABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240430288 titled 'NETWORK TAILORED VULNERABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Original Abstract Submitted

a system as disclosed herein analyzes unresolved vulnerabilities against current configurations of devices of a network to generate an impact analysis report which provides a comprehensive view of the impact of the vulnerabilities on the network. this provides a manageable perspective of risk assessment and remediation for the network. to maintain a current view of device configurations, telemetry data streams are collected from the devices. a listing of outstanding or unresolved cybersecurity vulnerabilities is also maintained. when an analysis trigger is detected, the system extracts values of configuration properties for devices from the telemetry data streams and analyses them against the list of vulnerabilities to determine devices affected by the vulnerabilities. tracking data are maintained according to the determinations of affected devices across vulnerabilities. this data is aggregated into an impact report that indicates impact of vulnerabilities to the network.