US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Oct. 21 for "System and methods for agentless managed device identification as part of setting a security policy for a device" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,312, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and methods for agentless managed device identification as part of setting a security policy for a device" was invented by Amit Abershitz (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses directed to efficiently determining whether a device making a request to access an application or service is a managed device and using that information to set an appropriate security policy for the device or the request to access the application or service. In some embodiments, a service or server (referred to as a Managed Dev...