ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,472, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting suspicious data access by a rogue cloud resource" was invented by Evgeny Bogokovsky (Herzliya, Israel), Ram Haim Pliskin (Rishon lezion, Israel) and Andrey Karpovsky (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein prevent a rogue resource from being created within a cloud computing environment. For example, a rogue serverless function may be prevented from integrating with a cloud-based database, thereby preventing the serverless function from performing malicious operations such as low-rate data exfil...