ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,586, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for risk monitoring of cloud based computing environments" was invented by Ami Luttwak (Binyamina, Israel), Yinon Costica (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Reznik (Tel Aviv, Israel), Raaz Herzberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Schindel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Rozendorn (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Avihai Berkovitz (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a contextual cloud risk assessment of a cloud computing environment. The method includes accessing a plurality of cloud assessment policies, wherein a policy including a query execut...