US Patent Issued to Wiz on Feb. 4 for "Techniques for circumventing provider-imposed limitations in snapshot inspection of disks for cybersecurity" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,053, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"Techniques for circumventing provider-imposed limitations in snapshot inspection of disks for cybersecurity" was invented by Shahar Rand (Haifa, Israel), Eric Abramov (Holon, Israel), Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Elad Gabay (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method reduces use of restricted operations in a cloud computing environment during cybersecurity threat inspection. The method includes: detecting an encrypted disk in a cloud computing environment, the encrypted disk encrypted utilizing a first key in a key management system (KMS); gen...