US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for validating, maintaining, and visualizing security policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,917, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for validating, maintaining, and visualizing security policies" was invented by Sandip Shah (Fremont, Calif.) and Robert Ling (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a policy by a policy manager, that includes selecting, by the policy manager, a policy entry that includes an input and an implementation, performing a validation on the policy entry, making a first determination, based on the validation, that the implementation was not successful, and updating the policy, based on the first determination,...