ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,697, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Forescout Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Network access control from anywhere" was invented by Erick Ingleby (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and related technologies for managing network access control from anywhere are described. A method includes receiving, from a cloud-based security system, information about a device that is coupled to a public network and decoupled from a private network. Based on the information, the method detects risky activity associated with the device. The method sends instructions to a remote agent executing on the device to p...