US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for analyzing security in computing environments with privilege escalation" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,376, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for analyzing security in computing environments with privilege escalation" was invented by Pauline Virginie Bolignano (London), John Byron Cook (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Jude Gacek (Maple Grove, Minn.), Kasper Luckow (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Neha Rungta (San Jose, Calif.), Cole Schlesinger (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian Sweet (College Park, Md.) and Carsten Varming (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy auditing service can be implemented, in accordance with at least one embodiment that obtains a set of parameters that indicates a sna...