ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,704, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VARONIS SYSTEMS INC. (New York).

"Network security probe" was invented by John Neystadt (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Shay Azulay (Rishon le-Zion, Israel), Amit Cohen (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Lior Chen (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically monitoring efficacy of security controls in a computer network, including a probe engine configurable with at least one set of rules relating to access permissions to data in the computer network, at least one security probe forming part of the probe engine and operative to automatically place, at at least one storage location with...