US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Dec. 23 for "Detecting credentials abuse of cloud compute services" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,729, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting credentials abuse of cloud compute services" was invented by Dror Alon (Beer Yaakov, Israel), Niv Sela (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Or Kliger (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Guy Arazi (Rosh Haayin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include identifying a first autonomous system number (ASN) for a service hosted by a networked entity, and retrieving, from a log file, an entry corresponding to an access by a networked entity to the service and...