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Systems and methods for unified hierarchical cybersecurity

US11128654B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 4, 2019
Grant dateSep 21, 2021
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Expiry dateDec 13, 2039

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/20
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise an analytic server, which improves the cybersecurity of a unified system comprising a plurality of sub-systems. The analytic server may instantiate a sub attack tree for each network sub-system within the unified system of distributed network infrastructure. The analytic server may access the sub attack trees of the network sub-systems based on the corresponding identifiers. The analytic server may build a high-level attack tree of the unified system by aggregating the sub attack tree of each sub-system. The analytic server may determine how the interconnection of the plurality of network sub-systems may affect the unified system security. The analytic server may update one or more nodes of the attack tree to reflect the changes produced from the interconnection. The analytic server may build the attack tree based on a set of aggregation rules.

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