US 12,333,038 B2
Risk assessment system for identifying data files with sensitive information
Jacopo Sabbatini, Hobart (AU); Gregory Ford Pollock, San Jose, CA (US); Jonathan David Hendren, Sydney (AU); Daniel Bradbury, Sydney (AU); Michael Franz Baukes, Hobart (AU); Stephen Cossell, Auckland (NZ); and Justin Glenn Lloyd, Gosford (AU)
Assigned to Upguard, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Upguard, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on May 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/319,030.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/343,338, filed on May 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0409727 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 21/6218 (2013.01) [G06F 16/9538 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
storing a plurality of search keywords associated with an entity, wherein the plurality of search keywords comprises search keywords describing characteristics of the entity;
generating a plurality of search terms based on the plurality of search keywords, wherein each search term of the plurality of search terms comprises a different combination of one or more search keywords from the plurality of search keywords;
generating a set of search results by searching one or more online public databases based on each of the one or more search terms, wherein the set of search results comprises a set of data files stored by the one or more online public databases;
generating a risk score for each data file in the set of data files by applying a risk scoring model to the set of search results, wherein a risk score for a data file indicates a likelihood that the data file comprises information that came from a data breach associated with the entity;
identifying, based on the generated risk scores for the set of data files, one or more data files of the set of data files that contain information from the data breach; and
transmitting a notification to the entity describing the identified one or more data files.