US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on June 2 for "Cloud security posture management" (Texas, Arizona, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,463, issued on June 2, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Cloud security posture management" was invented by Prosanta Ghosh (Frisco, Texas), Adrian Lane (Phoenix) and Guangbei Li (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for cloud security posture management are described herein. Cloud configuration data is obtained for a security asset of a cloud computing environment. The cloud configuration data is evaluated by a machine learning processor using a requirements control model to output a probability of a misconfiguration of the security asset. A mitigation action is generated for the ...