US Patent Issued to Wiz on July 14 for "Weak password detection in cloud computing environments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,038, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Weak password detection in cloud computing environments" was invented by Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gal Kozoshnik (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method detect weak passwords in a workload deployed in a cloud computing environment. The method includes extracting a digest value from a password record, the password record further including a cryptographic function identifier of a cryptographic function; generating a digest value by processing the cryptographic function with a value selected from a dictionary list as an input; compar...