US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 11 for "Prevention of container escape-based attacks of a host system" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,569, issued on March 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prevention of container escape-based attacks of a host system" was invented by Daniel Prizmant (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ariel M. Zelivansky (Mountain View, Calif.), Liron Levin (Kefar Sava, Israel) and Eran Yanay (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service prevents attacks carried out through container escape for silo-based containers. A callback is registered for a function(s) that may be invoked from inside a container and returns an object handle(s). The callback, when triggered by invocation of the function(s), executes for determin...