Nelson J Chevis

US Patent:

20120079598, Mar 29, 2012

Filed:

Sep 27, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/891229

Inventors:

Thomas Brock - Carrollton TX, US
Nelson Chevis - Highland Village TX, US
Trish Harris - Desoto TX, US
Mau Q. Le - Tustin CA, US

Assignee:

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION - Charlotte NC

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

726 25

Abstract:

A method for real-time threat monitoring includes identifying two or more real time vulnerabilities, each associated with one or more objects of an enterprise, correlating the two or more real-time vulnerabilities to each other, applying a risk tiering model to the correlated real-time vulnerability, thereby classifying the correlated real-time vulnerability into risk tiers, and initiating an alert based on the correlated real-time vulnerability and the risk tiers into which the correlated real-time vulnerability is classified. According to other embodiments a method includes applying a risk methodology to log data contained in one or more object logs thereby identifying one or more security events, applying a risk tiering model to the one or more security events, thereby classifying the security events into risk tiers, and initiating an alert based on the security events and the risk tiers into which the security events are classified.

US Patent:

20090144121, Jun 4, 2009

Filed:

Nov 30, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/948735

Inventors:

Nelson J. Chevis - Highland Village TX, US
Timothy Edward Gorczyca - Allen TX, US
Mian Zhou - Dallas TX, US

Assignee:

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION - Charlotte NC

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00

US Classification:

705 9, 705 7

Abstract:

The disclosure relates to a process which determines a cross-training plan in order to ensure a company or business unit will be better prepared for a pandemic event by cross-training additional employees in the most critical services or functions. The pandemic cross-training plan is determined by utilizing such criteria such as geography, experience-level, and employee preference to strategically and systematically cross-train an employee in a critical function. This can be completed either manually through a criteria matrix approach or automatically by a computing device and utilizing mathematical formulas.