US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 13 for "Contextual security recommendations for optimization and security best practices in a data network security fabric" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,588, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Contextual security recommendations for optimization and security best practices in a data network security fabric" was invented by Jordan Edward Thompson (Vancouver, Canada), Jerrod Robert Seger (Port Coquitlam, Canada) and Mark Derek Westerhof (Port Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network gateway interrogates a plurality of network devices to collect security state data and operational state data on a periodic basis. Contextual security recommendations are generated based on the security rating report. Security actions can be taken based o...