Patent ID: 11888843
Assignee: SPYCLOUD, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method, comprising:
obtaining, with a computer system, a first password, the first password being associated with a first username and serving to afford access to a network-accessible resource;
receiving, via a network, a differential update from a remote credential-monitoring system of credentials determined to have been compromised since a previous update of a database resident on a private computer network;
writing the differential update to the database;
determining, with the computer system, whether the first password satisfies one or more criteria from among a plurality of criteria, wherein the determining whether the first password satisfies the one or more criteria includes determining whether the first password satisfies a first criterion among the plurality of criteria that includes:
comparing the first password to a set of compromised credentials within the database; and
determining whether the first password matches one or more passwords within the database, wherein the first criterion is satisfied in response to the one or more passwords matching the first password, wherein determining whether the first password matches the one or more passwords within the database includes comparing the first password to updated credentials in the database; and

in response to the determination that the first password satisfies the one or more criteria from among the plurality of criteria, causing, with the computer system, a use of the first password to access the network-accessible resource to be rejected.