US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for extensible, modular, and hierarchical step-up authentication" (Indian, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,366, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for extensible, modular, and hierarchical step-up authentication" was invented by Rahul Singh (Mohali, India), Manish Jasyal (Mohali, India), Murtuza Attarwala (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wei Wang (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a hierarchical step-up authentication mechanism include monitoring access to one or more private applications; responsive to a request to access the one or more private applications, determining an Authentication Level (AL) of a user associated with the request, wherein determini...