US Patent Issued to Wiz on July 29 for "System and method for detecting lateral movement using SSH private keys" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,499, issued on July 29, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for detecting lateral movement using SSH private keys" was invented by Avi Tal Lichtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, 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 lateral movement based on an exposed cryptographic network protocol (CNP) key in a cloud computing environment. The method includes: inspecting a first workload for a private CNP key, the private CNP key associated with a hash of a public CNP key; detecting in a security database a representation of the public CNP ...