US 12,425,438 B1
Threat activity statistical analysis driven adaptation of a control specification
Bryan Cline, Frisco, TX (US); Jeremy Huval, Celina, TX (US); and Andrew Russell, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to HITRUST Services Corp., Frisco, TX (US)
Filed by Hitrust Services Corp., Frisco, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/137,719.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/1433 (2013.01) [H04L 63/1425 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for threat activity statistical analysis driven adaptive control specification comprising:
retrieving a data structure from over a computer communications network into memory of a computing device;
parsing the data structure in the memory to extract a listing of different threat activities;
computing in the memory a statistical analysis of the different threat activities; and,
responsive to the statistical analysis surpassing a threshold for an identified one of the different threat activities, determining a corresponding threat incorporating the identified one of the different threat activities in an associated kill chain, retrieving a control specification addressing the corresponding threat, and modifying the control specification to address the corresponding threat, wherein the statistical analysis is an extrapolation of frequency at a future moment based upon a set of previously computed frequencies at previous moments, and the threshold is a threshold frequency of occurrence of the identified one of the different threat activities at the future moment.