Patent Document ID: 20160248799
Application ID: 15141779
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: assessing risk of a cyber security failure in a computer network of an entity, using a computer agent configured to collect information from at least publicly accessible Internet elements, wherein the assessing of risk comprises: evaluating the collected information to obtain circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity; cross referencing data in the collected information to confirm or infer that the entity is referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information that is indicative of the entity being referenced in the circumstantial or indirect information; and at least one of increasing and decreasing the assessed risk if the circumstantial or indirect information is negative or positive; automatically determining, based on the assessed risk, a change or a setting to at least one element of policy criteria of a cyber security policy; automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, computer network changes to reduce the assessed risk; providing one or more recommended computer network changes to reduce the assessed risk, enactment by the entity of at least one of the one or more of the recommended computer network changes to reduce the assessed risk to the entity; determining that the entity has enacted at least a portion of the recommended computer network changes, and in response, automatically reassessing the risk of a cyber security failure in the computer network of the entity based on the enacted recommended computer network changes; and dynamically re-determining, based on the reassessed risk of a cyber security failure in the computer network of the entity, the change or the setting to the at least one element of policy criteria of the cyber security policy.