US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 3 for "Security alert prioritization for cloud-based resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,217, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Security alert prioritization for cloud-based resources" was invented by Alok Tongaonkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Venkatesh Pappakrishnan (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention for protecting a cloud computing system. In these embodiments, security alerts pertaining to cloud-based resources of the system are received, and a plurality of attack paths traversing the cloud-based resources are identified. Respective impact scores for the cloud-bas...