ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,451, issued on May 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"IoT security policy on a firewall" was invented by Kalyan Siddam (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Du (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enforcing policies on Internet of Things (IoT) device communications are disclosed. Information associated with a network communication of an IoT device is received. The received information is used to determine a device profile, including a device type, to associate with the IoT device. A recommended security policy to be applied to the IoT device by a security appliance is generated."
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