US Patent Issued to Zscaler on June 24 for "Automated estimation of network security policy risk" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,794, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated estimation of network security policy risk" was invented by John O'Neil (Watertown, Mass.) and Michael J. Melson (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system automatically tests a network communication model by predicting whether particular traffic (whether actual or simulated) should be allowed on the network, and then estimating the accuracy of the network communication model based on the prediction. Such an estimate may be generated even before the model has been applied to traffic on the network. For example, steps can include ...