US Patent Issued to Fortinet on June 17 for "Compute environment security monitoring using data collected from a sub-kernel space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,286, issued on June 17, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Compute environment security monitoring using data collected from a sub-kernel space" was invented by Ulfar Erlingsson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection system is disclosed to be communicatively coupled to a data platform configured to perform security monitoring of a compute environment. A sub-kernel component of the data collection system may collect sub-kernel data accessible from a sub-kernel space below an operating system of a compute resource in the compute environment. The data colle...