US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Oct. 14 for "Cryptographic proofs for seamless single sign-on (SSO) to cloud services based on on-premises authentication" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,428, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Cryptographic proofs for seamless single sign-on (SSO) to cloud services based on on-premises authentication" was invented by David Allen Redberg (New York) and Yannick Dubuc (Anmore, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure connection is established between an IAM server on a data communication network and an on-premises active directory using a zero trust tunnel based on TCP forwarding. An authentication request is received from a gateway device, for the user to access a service provider hosting applications, responsive to a user request for access to...