US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Sept. 29 for "Vulnerability management for a cloud environment using software development information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,383, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vulnerability management for a cloud environment using software development information" was invented by Jeffrey A. Kwiat (Oakland, Calif.), Galen D. Emery (San Diego) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for managing a vulnerability may include identifying, based on a scan of a compute environment, a vulnerable software component included in a plurality of software components deployed within the compute environment, identifying software development information associated with the plurality of software comp...