US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 24 for "Laying out security zone policies for information technology and operational technology devices on hybrid networks" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,539, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Laying out security zone policies for information technology and operational technology devices on hybrid networks" was invented by Aasef Iqbal (Dubai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From deep packet inspection, it is determined whether each of the plurality of network devices is part of the IT segment or the OT segment by examining a physical network address, a data type and a network protocol of one or more of the network packets. A network hierarchy is dynamically generated that maps the IT segment with interconnected IT levels having IT devices re...