Systems, structures, and processes for interconnected devices and risk management
US9984344B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 1, 2017 |
| Grant date | May 29, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W4/70
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are provided that produce a risk profile consisting of a risk score and trends of risk scores across devices and sensors in a machine-to-machine (M2M) or Internet of things (IOT) environment. For example, a device is assigned a risk score which is based on baseline factors such as expected network packets between two devices, normal network packets, access to critical devices, authorized access requests from one device to another device, normal communications to a device, and the critical ports of a device; access to and conflicts across physical, logical, and operational systems; historical and current usage of these systems, and anomalies from normal behavior patterns. Techniques encompass risk management by computing a risk score in a timely fashion in accordance with an architecture that enables achieving the required scaling necessitated by the huge number of devices in the machine-to-machine (M2M) or Internet of things (IOT) environment.
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