US Patent Issued to Zscaler on April 7 for "Systems and methods for cloud-centric biometric step-up and authentication" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,179, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for cloud-centric biometric step-up and authentication" was invented by Yaroslav Rosomakho (Thatcham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cloud-centric biometric step-up and authentication include monitoring traffic from one or more endpoints via a cloud service; determining a requirement for authentication of a user associated with the traffic based on the monitoring; causing a computing device associated with the user and the traffic to capture a photograph of the user; and processing the photograph to conf...