US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 24 for "App security: agentless solution to identify internal service to service dependencies and routes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,078, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"App security: agentless solution to identify internal service to service dependencies and routes" was invented by Praveen Kumar Sinha (San Jose, Calif.), Venkata Ramadurga Prasad Katakam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sri Kumar Chari (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for performing discovery of service to service communication traffic. The method includes (i) determining, based at least in part on one or more Domain Name System (DNS) logs, a source Internet Protocol (...