US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for deploying agentless countermeasures in a network environment" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,942, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for deploying agentless countermeasures in a network environment" was invented by Jason Abate (Chicago) and Shabbir Karimi (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various approaches for providing network maintenance and health monitoring are discussed. In some cases, some approaches include systems, methods, and/or devices that provide for detecting problematic network behavior and deploying countermeasures in relation to the detected behavior without an agent operating on the device where the countermeasures are implemented."...