US Patent Issued to SONICWALL on Oct. 6 for "Triggering provisioning of cloud-based security through firewall" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,693, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SONICWALL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Triggering provisioning of cloud-based security through firewall" was invented by Tarun Desikan (Burlingame, Calif.), Jayanth Gummaraju (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Yoshio Turner (San Francisco) and Jasmine S. Sanghvi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is related to methods and apparatus for triggering provisioning of cloud-based security through a network firewall. Triggering provisioning includes an access control service verifying authorization of the end-user device to access the private network and evaluating device characteris...