ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,571, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Agentless workload vulnerability scanning" was invented by Abhijeet Singh Rawat (Hyderabad, India), Abhiram Barik (Hyderabad, India), Chandar Dayakar Singh Gadi (Bangalore, India) and Krishnakumar C (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for agentless workload vulnerability scanning include creating a snapshot of a workload in a cloud environment and analyzing workload data from the snapshot to identify one or more characteristics of the workload. The characteristics can be used to identify vulnerabilities present in the workload b...