Patent Document ID: 9930062
Application ID: 15633242
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for evaluating cyber readiness of an organization, the method comprising: presenting, by a computer, a plurality of objective questions to a user, wherein each of the objective questions has one or more predefined answers to be selected by said user; receiving, by said computer, answers to said plurality of objective questions from said user; correlating, by said computer, one or more of said objective questions to a plurality of elements of an organizational safeguard; determining based on said answers, by said computer, a risk rating for a threat origin of a cyber-attack; determining based on said answers, by said computer, a strength rating for said organizational safeguard against said threat origin, wherein said elements of said organizational safeguard collectively determine said strength rating of said organizational safeguard; comparing, by said computer, said risk rating of said threat origin to said strength rating of said organizational safeguard; determining based on said comparison, by said computer, a cyber readiness rating of said organizational safeguard from said cyber-attack by said threat origin; and presenting, by said computer, the cyber readiness rating of said organizational safeguard, wherein determining of said strength rating of said organizational safeguard comprises: determining, by said computer, a strength rating for a first element of said organizational safeguard based on at least one of said answers, determining, by said computer, a strength rating for a second element of said organizational safeguard based on at least one of said answers, and determining, by said computer, a strength rating for a third element of said organizational safeguard based on said strength rating of said first element and said strength rating of said second element.