US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Jan. 13 for "Self healing network security policy management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,323, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Self healing network security policy management" was invented by Kaushal Bansal (Pleasanton, Calif.), Prabhat Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Amit Chakrabarty (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method determines a first functional domain that includes a group of security policies that have been copied from a second functional domain. Network flow data is queried to determine network traffic that is associated with a security policy in the group of security policies in the first functional domain. The method analyzes utilization ...