US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 22 for "Identifying serverless functions with over-permissive roles" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,818, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying serverless functions with over-permissive roles" was invented by Avraham Shulman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ory Segal (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shaked Yosef Zin (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on analyzing a serverless function associated with a first role, a set of security permissions granted to the serverless function is identified based on the first role and a first attribute of the serverless function. A least privilege role indicating a set of least privilege security permissions for the serverless function i...