US Patent Issued to Netskope on Oct. 20 for "Scoring confidence in user compliance with an organization's security policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,726, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scoring confidence in user compliance with an organization's security policies" was invented by Yihua Liao (Fremont, Calif.), Yi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dipak Patil (Fremont, Calif.), Prathamesh Deshpande (Folsom, Calif.), Yongxin Wang (San Ramon, Calif.) and Siying Yang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology teaches a method for evaluating user compliance with an organization's security policies, formulating a user confidence or risk score, comprising scoring for each user a sum of alert weights, categorized by seve...