US Patent Issued to Forescout Technologies on July 29 for "Sub-networks based security method, apparatus and product" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,565, issued on July 29, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sub-networks based security method, apparatus and product" was invented by Shmulik Bachar (Herzliya, Israel) and Yossi Atias (Kfar-Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and product for sub-networks based cyber security. One method includes detecting a device connecting to a local network, wherein the local network is divided into an initial set of subnets, identifying the device by performing a fingerprinting operation on the device, determining an expected usage of the device and updating the initial set of subnets base...