US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 27 for "Identification by a data platform of secrets misuse by cloud workloads" (California, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,839, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identification by a data platform of secrets misuse by cloud workloads" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Xiaofei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Naveen Kumar Bibinagar (Austin, Texas), Jacob A. Kilby (San Francisco) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method for performing an identification of secrets misuse may include accessing runtime workload data associated with one or more keys configured to be accessed by a workload deployed in a compute environment, det...