US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Nov. 4 for "Attack path risk mitigation by a data platform using static and runtime data" (California, Washington, North Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,997, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Attack path risk mitigation by a data platform using static and runtime data" was invented by Xiaofei Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John Payyappillil John (Seattle), Matti A. Vanninen (Cary, N.C.), Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Nolan K. Karpinski (San Francisco), Mary L Singh (Arlington, Va.), 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 identifying, based on static workload data associated with a compute environment, one or more attack paths from a network to one or ...