ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,786, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for active exposure and unwanted connection protection" was invented by Nathan Howe (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for active exposure and unwanted connection protection. In various embodiments, steps include receiving a request from a user to access a destination service; directing the request to a control layer; enforcing one or more controls, via the control layer, on the request based on a configuration provided by an owner of the destination service; and creating a connection from the destination ...