US Patent Issued to Netskope on March 17 for "Metadata-based detection and prevention of phishing attacks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,960, issued on March 17, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Metadata-based detection and prevention of phishing attacks" was invented by Krishna Narayanaswamy (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed intercepts a webpage rendered by a server in response to a user action executed on a client. The technology disclosed analyzes one or more images of the webpage and determines that a particular hosted service is represented by the images. It analyzes one or more fields of the webpage and determines that the fields elicit confidential information. The technology disclosed intercepts a r...