US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Cloud attack detection via API access analysis" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,986, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cloud attack detection via API access analysis" was invented by Josef Weizman (Haifa, Israel), Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Aharon Naftali Michaels (Beit Shemesh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for cloud resource security. A method can include receiving, at a monitor device and from a first cloud resource of cloud resources hosted by a cloud provider, a request for a token that uniquely identifies the first cloud resource, the request indicating a destination t...