US Patent Issued to Zscaler on Dec. 9 for "Cloud-based deception technology with auto-decoy and breadcrumb creation based on user's role and without on-premises appliances" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,073, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based deception technology with auto-decoy and breadcrumb creation based on user's role and without on-premises appliances" was invented by Bhavesh Kothari (Pune, India), Sahir Hidayatullah (Mumbai, India), Deepen Desai (San Ramon, Calif.), Akshay Shah (Bangalore, India) and Reshad Patuck (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cloud-based deception systems and methods include monitoring activity of a user on a user device; analyzing the activity to determine a role of a plurality of roles, for the user at a customer; and creating one or more fake ass...