ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,230, issued on March 11, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).
"Lateral movement analysis using certificate 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 potential lateral movement in a cloud computing environment includes detecting a private encryption key and a certificate, each of which further include a hash value of a respective public key, wherein the certificate is stored on a first resource deployed in the cloud computing environment; generating in a security graph: a pr...