US Patent Issued to Wiz on Dec. 9 for "Techniques for utilizing a sensor in detecting privilege escalation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,049, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for utilizing a sensor in detecting privilege escalation" was invented by Itamar Gilad (Tel Aviv, Israel), Aviel Fogel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Udi Reitblat (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Schindel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting privilege escalation on a resource deployed in a computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: configuring the resource to deploy thereon a sensor, the sensor configured to listen on a data...