US Patent Issued to Wiz on Nov. 3 for "Permission escalation detection utilizing unified identity mapping and permission detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,196, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Permission escalation detection utilizing unified identity mapping and permission detection" was invented by Avihai Berkovitz (Tel Aviv, Israel), George Pisha (Giv'atayim, Israel), Yaniv Joseph Oliver (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Udi Reitblat (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting a permission escalation event includes querying a security graph to detect a second principal node, representing a second principal, the second principal having a permission to assume a first principal, represented by a first principal node, wherein the securit...