US Patent Issued to Wiz on March 11 for "System and method for detecting lateral movement using cloud access keys" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,231, issued on March 11, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for detecting lateral movement using cloud access keys" was invented by Avi Tal Lichtenstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel) and Daniel Hershko Shemesh (Givat-Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting potential lateral movement using cloud keys in a cloud computing environment includes determining a first node in a security graph is a compromised node, wherein the security graph represents cloud entities of the cloud computing environment; detecting a cloud key node connected to the first node, w...