US Patent Issued to Netskope on March 17 for "Simulation and visualization of malware spread through sharing of data objects in cloud applications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,945, issued on March 17, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Simulation and visualization of malware spread through sharing of data objects in cloud applications" was invented by Sean Hittel (Calgary, Canada) and Ravindra K. Balupari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to simulating spread of a malware in cloud applications. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to accessing sharing data for files shared between users via sync and share mechanisms of cloud applications, tracing connections between the users by traversing a directed graph constructed based on t...