ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,538, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Lateral movement firewall" was invented by Noam Hadash (Ness Ziona, Israel), Amir Kutcher (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Edan Zwick (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Philip Tsukerman (Herzliya, Israel) and Yair Tsarfaty (Nahariya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more examples disclosed herein, a potential cyberattack is detected in a centralized computer system. A centralized policy service generates a prevention policy in response, using the information about the potential cyberattack. The prevention policy allows granular blocking of selectiv...