US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Nov. 4 for "Adjusting behavior of an endpoint security agent based on network location" (Georgia, Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,979, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Adjusting behavior of an endpoint security agent based on network location" was invented by Gregory L. Galloway (Suwanee, Ga.), Karl D. Melcher (Canton, Ga.), Michael C. Starr (Reston, Va.) and Scott M. Davis (Wantagh, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adjusting the behavior of an endpoint security agent based on a network location are provided. According to an embodiment, an agent of an endpoint device identifies whether a security service of a cloud-based security service is not reachable or is unresponsive. The security service is a...