US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 19 for "Predicting attack paths using code analysis" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,376, issued on May 19, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Predicting attack paths using code analysis" was invented by Charles Y. Kim (Jersey City, N.J.), Linpeng Zhang (London), David McAleer (Belfast, Great Britain), Hemanth Gokavarapu (Newark, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting attack paths using code analysis, including: detecting a vulnerability in code by performing a static code analysis of the code; identifying an attack surface for the vulnerability in a cloud deployment; and generating an alert for the vulnerability by assigning a priority to the alert based o...