US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Feb. 3 for "Malicious port scan detection using port profiles" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,789, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Malicious port scan detection using port profiles" was invented by Yinnon Meshi (Kibbutz Revivim, Israel), Idan Amit (Ramat Gan, Israel), Jonathan Allon (Haifa, Israel) and Aviad Meyer (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and computer software products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining, for a given software category, respective, disjoint sets of communication ports that are used by each of a plurality of software systems in the given software category, including at least first and...