US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on May 27 for "Policy enforcement using host profile" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,679, issued on May 27, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Policy enforcement using host profile" was invented by Siu-Wang Leung (Las Vegas), Song Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yueh-Zen Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for policy enforcement, a system for policy enforcement, and a computer program product for policy enforcement. A method for policy enforcement is provided. The method includes receiving a host information profile report from a client device, and enforcing a security policy for network access based on the host info...