ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,794, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Security policy analysis" was invented by Kartik Mohanram (Pittsburgh) and Navneet Yadav (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security policy analysis is disclosed. Configuration information, including at least one policy, associated with a live production security appliance, is received. The received configuration information is used to instantiate the policy in a sandbox environment. The sandbox environment is used to evaluate a proposed change to the configuration information, including by building a model using the received configura...