US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 3 for "Automatic security coverage expansion of cloud security posture management (CSPM) assets" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,086, issued on March 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic security coverage expansion of cloud security posture management (CSPM) assets" was invented by Ankit Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Vivek Hari Menon (Kochi, India), Akshay Raghunandan (Bengaluru, India) and Pranav Rai (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system has been created to automatically expand CSPM coverage for an organization based on CSP offerings and organization usage of cloud resources. The system crawls API specifications of each CSP used by an organization to extract cloud resource metadata including attributes...