Patent ID: 9143523
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for assessing threat to at least one computer network, the threat including at least one electronic threat, the computer network comprising a plurality of IT systems and a plurality of business processes operating on the plurality of IT systems, wherein (a) at least one IT system has two or more of the plurality of business processes operating thereon or (b) at least one business process operates on two or more of the plurality of IT systems, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor that cause the processor to: predict future threat activity based on past observed threat activity including, for the at least one electronic threat, to receive observed threat data from a database, to extrapolate future event frequency and to produce a profile of predicted threat activity, wherein the observed threat data includes observed threats and, for each observed threat, one or more targets for the observed threat and a severity score for each target, determine expected downtime of each system of the plurality of IT systems in dependence upon said predicted threat activity including the severity scores and extrapolated future event frequency, determine loss for each of the plurality of business processes dependent on the downtimes of the IT systems, and add losses for the plurality of business processes so as to obtain a combined loss arising from the threat activity.