US Patent Issued to Wiz on Nov. 18 for "System and method for identifying cybersecurity risk source in container image layers" (Israeli, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,220, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).

"System and method for identifying cybersecurity risk source in container image layers" was invented by Yaniv Shaked (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Kozoshnik (Petah Tikva, Israel), Yaniv Joseph Oliver (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Lande Blau (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Jonathan Dong (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting a cybersecurity issue in a software container layer and mitigating the same is presented. The method includes: detecting a software container including a plurality of layers; associating a first layer of the plurality of layers with a fi...