US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 31 for "Method and system for providing DNS security using process information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,941, issued on March 31, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for providing DNS security using process information" was invented by Zihang Xiao (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Zhanhao Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Domain Name System (DNS) security using process information is provided. An application accessing an internet service using a domain name is determined. Process information associated with the application along with an associated DNS query to identify an IP address associated with the domain name are identified. The process information and the associated DNS que...