US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 22 for "Modular agentless scanning of cloud workloads" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,746, issued on July 22, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Modular agentless scanning of cloud workloads" was invented by Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Whitney L. Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Jacob A. Kilby (San Francisco), Ammar G. Ekbote (Renton, Wash.), Sowmya A. Karmali (Tustin, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative method includes a scanning driver providing an interface between data included in a data structure located within a compute environment and one or more scan modules included in an unprivileged agentless workload scanning configuration execut...