US 12,425,440 B1
Assessment of the enterprise network of another organization
Samrudh Rajachudamani, Chicago, IL (US); Christopher Horn, Rochester, NY (US); Daniel Varga, Rolesville, NC (US); and Christopher Nabkey, Ada, MI (US)
Assigned to Tanium Inc., Emeryville, CA (US)
Filed by Tanium Inc., Emeryville, CA (US)
Filed on May 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/315,497.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/380,382, filed on Oct. 20, 2022.
Int. Cl. H04L 29/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06Q 10/0635 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 63/1433 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0635 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a cloud service to facilitate performance by a first organization of an assessment of an enterprise network of a second organization, the method comprising:
responsive to a trigger, the cloud service, executing on hardware coupled over a network to the enterprise network of the second organization, performing the following operations with approval from the second organization:
causing client software installed on each of a plurality of endpoints within the enterprise network to determine a-first information regarding a current state;
receiving a second information that is based on the first information regarding each of the plurality of endpoints; and
sharing third information, securely, with the first organization, wherein the third information is the second information or is based on the second information, and wherein the third information is limited, through a set of one or more mechanisms, to that considered to be acceptable to share with another organization, wherein the set of one or more mechanisms is the cloud service limiting the type of information that the first organization can request to a tally for each of yes, no, and not applicable based on the first information collected from each of the plurality of endpoints.