US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 25 for "Detecting scanning and attacking uniform resource locators in network traffic" (California, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,573, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting scanning and attacking uniform resource locators in network traffic" was invented by Beliz Kaleli (Boston), Fang Liu (College Station, Texas) and Oleksii Starov (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting scanning and attacking uniform resource locators in network traffic are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for detecting scanning and attacking uniform resource locators in network traffic includes monitoring egress traffic from an enterprise network, determining whether a unifor...