US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on June 3 for "Beacon and threat intelligence based APT detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,389, issued on June 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Beacon and threat intelligence based APT detection" was invented by Yanhui Jia (San Jose, Calif.), Qi Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shengming Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for beacon and threat intelligence based Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for beacon and threat intelligence based APT detection includes collecting firewall log data from monitored network traffic; analyzing the firewall log data at a cloud security service to i...