US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 17 for "Auto inferring source/destination roles of network zones for improved security posture recommendations" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,514, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Auto inferring source/destination roles of network zones for improved security posture recommendations" was invented by Albert Estevez Polo (Barcelona, Spain), Didac Gil de la Iglesia (Sant Fost de Campsentelles, Spain), Jack Stephen Edmonds (Santa Jose, Calif.), Shuhong Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Praveen Tiwari (Milpitas, Calif.), Gaurav Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bhanu Teja Sriram (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security configuration gap analysis system described herein infers roles of source and destination entities of ...