US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Dec. 2 for "Distributed network application security policy generation and enforcement for microsegmentation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,790, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed network application security policy generation and enforcement for microsegmentation" was invented by John H. O'Neil (Watertown, Mass.), Peter Smith (Acton, Mass.) and Thomas Evan Keiser Jr. (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for microsegmentation include receiving network communication information that describes flows between hosts in a network and applications executed on the hosts; generating a network communication model based on the network communication information that labels flows; and providing polices to the hosts bas...