ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,059, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Posture control for cloud environments" was invented by Pushkar Saraf (Seattle), Joshua D. Carlisle (Raleigh, N.C.), Arik Kfir (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Balasubramaniyan Kannan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes systems and methods for posture control of cloud environments. Various embodiments include scanning a cloud environment for posture control data; identifying one or more configurations associated with the cloud environment; identifying one or more activities performed by a plurality of identities associated...