ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,849, issued on March 25, was assigned to CyberArk Software Ltd. (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

"Automatic least-privilege access and control for target resources" was invented by Tomer Dayan (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for performing operations using least-privilege access to and control of target network resources. Operations may include identifying a prompt associated with a least-privilege requesting identity to initiate an action on a target network resource; executing, in response to the prompt, a first set of executable code; initiating, based on the first...