US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 17 for "Conditional ssh tunneling as a policy enforcement point for seamless zero trust integration" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,518, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Conditional ssh tunneling as a policy enforcement point for seamless zero trust integration" was invented by John-David Stuart Marsters (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced security for Zero Trust networks is provided by SSH-customized tunnel clients/tunnel servers, a catalog service, and loopback address DNS mechanisms. Systems and methods provide Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) layer enhancements, strategically positioning the PEP between the user and the network resource. It manages network traffic flows and provides moderate control granul...