US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on April 14 for "Attack chain identification via misconfigurations in cloud resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,897, issued on April 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Attack chain identification via misconfigurations in cloud resources" was invented by Krishnan Shankar Narayan (San Jose, Calif.) and Praveen Herur (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud resource management system detects resource misconfiguration for resources in a cloud including cloud policy misconfigurations and resource vulnerabilities. An attack chain analyzer identifies attack chains from misconfigured resources ordered according to stages in an attack framework that models sequential behavior for malicious attacks. The a...