US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Aug. 19 for "Inline detection of encrypted malicious network sessions" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,523, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline detection of encrypted malicious network sessions" was invented by Lei Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stefan Achleitner (Arlington, Va.), Yu Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inline malicious traffic detector captures handshake messages in a session with a security protocol. The inline malicious traffic detector comprises a classifier that generates a verdict for the session indicating malicious or benign. The classifier is trained on labelled sessions using custom features generated from h...